was older than 42 years and yet, Ian Murdock died. He was best known for being the origin of GNU / Linux distributions proposed in 1996. It was partly with his wife he had developed this project
He was older than 42 years and yet, Ian Murdock died. He was best known for being the origin of GNU / Linux distributions proposed in 1996. It was partly with his wife he had developed the Debian project.
Monday Last, Ian Murdock lost his life
If Ian Murdock is an illustrious unknown to many users, however, it was an emblematic figure for developers and all those who are interested in Linux. 42 years old, this man died, but the conditions of his death have not been shared. The announcement of his death is quite late, because it is made on January 1 when Ian Murdock lost his life at the beginning of the week.
“Ian Murdock was a friend. I am shocked and saddened “, wrote Jim Zemlin, director of the Linux Foundation, which Murdock was chief technology officer (CTO) between 2005 and 2007.
RIP Ian Murdock (1973-2015), founder of the Debian project. You’ll be missed. Linux pic.twitter.com/Nq7yly3D4s
- (Linux) December 30, 2015
“Debian would become the universal operating system through the world, running on all machines, from embedded systems to the space station, “, says a tribute post published on the official website of Debian. “Ian had focused on creating a distribution and a community culture that would take the right decisions both from the ethical point of view and from a technical perspective. Post only when it’s ready and firm position of the project on software freedom are the golden rules in the world of free software and open source. “
A Man the origin of the “ian” of Debian
It is best known for being behind the Debian project whose name is a contraction of his name and that of his wife Debra Lynn ie. So they were both originally a renowned operating system. Connoisseurs know it was notably used for the creation of Ubuntu. The death of Ian Murdock was the subject of many rumors, one revealed that he could commit suicide while a second emphasized problems with law enforcement.
Saying being hit by the police to the point of having to have stitches, Murdock stated in his tweets have been charged with violence against a police officer, to the point of bail of 25,000 dollars to settle for avoid prison box. Police violence in the United States are the subject of several other messages. “Maybe my suicide, that of a recognized businessman, not a NEGRO, draw a little attention to this very serious problem” , it said in a tweet.
At this time, no official statement has been made and the Twitter account of Ian Murdock was even disabled. His death, however, is official, as it was announced by the website dedicated to the Linux distribution. This fervent defender of free software had not Debian to its workforce, as it has been the chairman of the Linux Standard Base, but he also served as CTO of the Linux Foundation.
Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock , born Constance in West Germany, and died 42 years, is the founder of the Debian project, commercial distribution Progeny Linux Systems. He was CEO of the consortium Free Standards Group (in) , and President Groupon working Linux Standard Base .
He wrote Debian Manifesto in 1993, while still a student at Purdue University, where he obtained a Bachelor in computer science in 1996.
He married Debra Lynn, whose contraction with his name gives its name to the Debian distribution.
, it is employed by Sun Microsystems where he directs the strategy of Sun’s operating system He remained until 2010 when the company merged with Oracle. Between and he worked in Salesforce Marketing Cloud (in) as vice president in charge of organizing the development of the platform.
For he worked for the Docker, Inc. The , Docker’s blog announces the death of Ian Murdock 28 December in the evening, it was announced that evening on his Twitter account his intention to commit suicide as a result of police violence. However, it is suggested that his account had been hacked and that the tweets would not be him. (source wikipedia)
The Debian Project
Debian is a community and democratic organization, whose purpose is the development of operating systems based exclusively on free software.
Each system, named himself Debian brings together around a kernel many elements that can be developed independently of each other for several hardware architectures . These elements, core programs etlogiciels filling out the application core, are in the form of “packages” that can be installed as needed (see Software Distribution). The whole operating system plus software is called a distribution.
System is generally thought these operating systems in Debian GNU / Linux , the GNU / Linux distribution Debian because until 2009 it was the only fully functional branch. But other Debian distributions are under development in 2013: Debian GNU / Hurd and Debian GNU / kFreeBSD. The Debian release “Squeeze” is the first to be distributed with the kFreeBSD kernel in addition to the Linux kernel.
Debian is used as the basis for many other distributions like Knoppix and Ubuntu that are very successful.
In late 2005, the Debian distribution was chosen by the City of Munich to equip some 14,000 PC computers which then formed its computers. In 2014, a report prepared by the new municipal team announced 14 million euros (M €) as migration costs, partially offset by € 11m economies and licenses equipment. The cost of the return to Windows is estimated by the same study in 3 M € materials plus the cost of licenses, known as negotiable. (Source Wikipedia)
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