(forw) [svlug] Ian Murdock, founder of Debian, has died at 42

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:20:01 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
Subject: [svlug] Ian Murdock, founder of Debian, has died at 42

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ian-murdock-father-of-debian-dead-at-42/

Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42
Former Sun VP and Linux Foundation CTO died under suspicious
circumstances.

by Sean Gallagher - Dec 30, 2015 3:03pm PST

Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has
died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO
Ben Golub, [link] came after an apparent encounter with police and a
statement posted on Murdock's Twitter feed that he was going to commit
suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

Murdock, born in Germany in 1973, founded Debian in 1993 while studying
computer science at Purdue University. The distribution gets its name
from the combination of his name and that of his then-girlfriend Deborah
Lynn. The pair married, and had two children; they divorced in 2007.

Murdock's Debian Manifesto [link] railed at the poor software maintenance 
of other Linux distributions of the time—and that of Softlanding Linux
System (SLS) in particular, bemoaning the lack of attention developers
gave to distributions and what he saw as the big cash grabs being made
by would-be commercial Linux developers. He outlined Debian's modular
architecture approach as well as its adherence to free software
philosophy.
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