| Ian Murdock | |
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| Born | 28 April 1973 Konstanz, West Germany |
| Residence | Indiana, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Purdue University |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Known for | Debian |
Ian Murdock (born April 28, 1973) is the founder of the Debian distribution and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
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Murdock was born in Konstanz, Germany.
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 his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn, and himself (Deb and Ian).[1]
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.[2] From March 2007 to February 2010, he was Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun, until the company merged with Oracle and he resigned his position with the company.[3]
Murdock is currently Vice President of Platform and Developer Community at ExactTarget, based in Indianapolis.[4]
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Debian Project Leader August 1993 – March 1996 |
Succeeded by Bruce Perens |
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