Ian Murdock

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Ian Murdock
Born 28 April 1973 (1973-04-28) (age 38)
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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[edit] Life and career

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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[edit] References

  1. ^ Nixon, Robin (2010). Ubuntu: Up and Running. O'Reilly Media. p. 3. ISBN 9780596804848. http://books.google.com/books?id=badSTnfeOoAC. 
  2. ^ "Q and A: Sun's Top Operating System Brass Talk OS Strategy", The Unix Guardian, IT Jungle, http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080207-story01.html .
  3. ^ "Ian Murdock", Executive Bio, Sun, http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/bio.jsp?name=Ian%20Murdock .
  4. ^ Ian Murdock Profile. LinkedIn. Retrieved on 2011-11-21.

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