Ian Murdock

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**Ian Murdock**
Ian Murdock
Born	April 28, 1973 Konstanz, Germany
Residence	Indiana, USA
Field	computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur
Institution	Sun Microsystems
Alma mater	Purdue University
Known for	Debian

Ian Murdock is the founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and the commercial Linux distributor Progeny. He currently works for Sun Microsystems "head[ing] up operating system platform strategy"^[1]; previously he served as the Chief Technology Officer of the Linux Foundation and is chair of the Linux Standard Base, the Linux platform interoperability standard. He lives in Indiana, USA.

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 (now wife) Debra.

[edit] References

^ http://ianmurdock.com/2007/03/19/joining-sun

[edit] See also

List of Debian Project leaders

[edit] External links

Preceded by none (founder)	Debian Project Leader August 1993 – March 1996	Succeeded by Bruce Perens

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GNU Project

History: GNU Manifesto • GNU Project • Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU licenses: GNU General Public License (GPL) • GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) • GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
Software: GNU operating system • bash • GNU Compiler Collection • Emacs • GNU C Library • Coreutils • GNU build system • other GNU packages and programs
Speakers: Robert J. Chassell • Loïc Dachary • Ricardo Galli • Georg C. F. Greve • Federico Heinz • Bradley M. Kuhn • Eben Moglen • Richard Stallman • Len Tower

Persondata
NAME	Murdock, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Konstanz, Germany
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH