| 10th | Top Sun Microsystems employees |
| Ian Murdock | |
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| Born | April 28, 1973 Konstanz, Germany |
| Residence | Indiana, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Purdue University |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Known for | Debian |
Ian Murdock (born April 28, 1973, in Konstanz, Germany) is the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and Progeny Linux Systems, a company providing services based on commercial distributions of operating systems built over the Linux kernel and distributed under a free software license such as the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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 himself and his then-girlfriend Debra - thus Deb(ra) and Ian.[1] They have since married, and then divorced in 2007.[2]
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.[3] From March of 2007 to February of 2010, he was Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun, until the company merged with Oracle and resigned his position with the company.[4]
Media related to Ian Murdock at Wikimedia Commons| Preceded by none (founder) |
Debian Project Leader August 1993–March 1996 |
Succeeded by Bruce Perens |
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   | ianmurdock.com - Ian Murdock’s Weblog |
| | LinuxJournal article on Debian from 1994 - Overview Of The Debian GNU/Linux System |
| | OpenSolaris mailing list capturing anti-Indiana sentiments - The advocacy-discuss November 2007 Archive by thread |
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