Ian Murdock

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.

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]

See also

• List of Debian Project Leaders

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.

External links

• Ian Murdock, http://ianmurdock.com .
• "Debian", LinuxJournal, 1994, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2841 .
• (MP3) Interview, 2005, http://tllts.org/mirror.php?fname=tllts_83-05-11-05.mp3 
• (MP3) Interview, Jeff Ratliff, 2006-07-04, http://www.jeffratliff.org/mirror/TLLTS/mp3/tllts_134-lwe-04-07-06.mp3 
• (video) Community One Keynote Address, Sun, 5 May 2008, http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2008-0505/commone/ .

New creation Founding of Debian Project

Debian Project Leader August 1993 – March 1996

Succeeded by Bruce Perens

Persondata
Name	Murdock, Ian
Alternative names
Short description	computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur
Date of birth	April 28, 1973 (1973-04-28) (age 38)
Place of birth	Konstanz, Germany
Date of death
Place of death