Jörg Schilling

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Jörg Schilling is a computer programmer who has worked extensively on compact disc burning software, the Solaris Operating System and the OpenSolaris project. He studied originally as an electrical engineer at the Technical University of Berlin. He is currently employed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin, where his main project is the BerliOS open source web site^[1]

Schilling has supported open source for a long time. In 1982, he started the first free tar implementation.^[2] His work over many years on CD burning software culminated in the cdrtools package, which includes cdrecord and the ancillary programs mkisofs and cdda2wav. This package supports most CD/DVD/BluRay recorders and runs on most operating systems.