Scott James Remnant
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Born: | July 18, 1980 |
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Occupation: | Ubuntu Developer |
Website: | http://www.netsplit.com/ |
Scott James Remnant is a free and open source software developer. He is an employee of Canonical Ltd where he works on the Ubuntu Linux distribution and directs development of the distribution as part of the four-person technical board.
Scott is particularly notable as the author of the new Upstart system initialization system and the popular Planet weblog aggregation system. In addition to his work on Ubuntu, Scott served as a long-time Debian developer where he maintained libtool, the dpkg package management system, and several other important packages. Scott resigned from Debian in 2006. Additionally, Scott has also served as the maintainer of libtool in the GNU project.