Ian Murdock (born April 28, 1973, in Konstanz, Germany) is the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and Progeny Linux Systems, a company providing services based on commercial distributions of operating systems built over the Linux kernel and distributed under a free software license such as the GNU General Public License (GPL).
He wrote the Debian Manifesto in 1993 while a student at Purdue University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1996. He named Debian after himself and his then-girlfriend Debra - thus Deb(ra) and Ian.[1] They have since married, and then divorced in 2007.[2]
On joining Sun, he led Project Indiana, which he described as "taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that for Solaris," making a full OpenSolaris distribution with GNOME and userland tools from GNU plus a network-based package management system.[3] He has since moved on to become Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun.[4]
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Murdock, Ian |
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computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur |
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April 28, 1973 (1973-04-28) (age 36) |
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Konstanz, Germany |
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