Jordan Hubbard

Jordan K. Hubbard (born April 8, 1963 in Honolulu) is a long-time open source developer, authoring software like the Ardent Window Manager and various other open source tools and libraries before finally co-founding the FreeBSD project. He started the FreeBSD project in 1993 with Nate Williams and Rodney W. Grimes, also creating the FreeBSD Ports collection and package management system. In July 2001 Hubbard joined Apple Computer in the role of manager of the BSD technology group. Since 2005, he has been "Director of UNIX Technology" at Apple. In October 2007, Hubbard was promoted to "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple.

External links

• My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem] - ACM Risks Digest - April 2, 1987
• History of FreeBSD project
• WorkingMac interview - August 16, 2001
• MacSlash interview - December 17, 2002
• OSNews interview - April 15, 2003
• Face to Face with Jordan Hubbard, BSDi - February 11, 2000
• Salon: Open-sourcing the Apple - Jordan initial reactions to the first time he used Mac OS X (November 17, 2000)