Debian founder joins Sun
News Sun has hired Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian version of Linux and who has held various posts involving the open source operating system. At Sun, Murdock now holds the title of chief operating platforms officer.
[March 20, 2007, 8:40]
Sun gears Solaris for Linux users
News The project is one of the items on the to-do list of Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian version of Linux, and, as of March, Sun's chief operating systems officer. As we make Solaris more familiar to Linux users, we don't [want to] lose what makes...
[May 10, 2007, 10:38]
Portland looks to unite Linux GUIs
News Portland is promising because the historical lack of uniformity across KDE and GNOME has made it difficult for ISVs to build a single application that integrates well in both environments," Linux Standard Base chairman Ian Murdock said in an...
[April 4, 2006, 17:20]
Linux standard improves C++ support
News Next month's release of the common core for Debian-based distributions will be certified to the LSB, meaning future versions of major Debian-based commercial distributions will be LSB-certified," said Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian and the...
[September 20, 2005, 16:55]
Sun names Xen-based hypervisor 'xVM'
News XVM will be fully integrated into Solaris with the first release of Project Indiana, the Linux-like incarnation of OpenSolaris led by Debian founder Ian Murdock. Sun, a long-time participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its...
[September 14, 2007, 17:59]
Debian suffers from community growing pains
News Started in August 1993 by software engineer Ian Murdock, the system was named after Murdock's wife Deb(ra) in a twinning with his own first name. Frustrated software programmers unable to sign up to the voluntarily run community of developers...
[April 22, 2008, 17:03]
Ubuntu lets loose 'Feisty Fawn'
News This is the first time the Java platform technology has been fully integrated into a Linux distribution to this extent," said Ian Murdock, Sun's newly appointed chief operating systems officer and founder of the Debian version of Linux on which...
[April 20, 2007, 15:45]
Debian start-up wants more funding
News Ian Murdock, chief strategy officer and a co-founder of both Debian and Progeny, said his company has been running profitably off its Series A funding round, completed in 2000, but now it's time for a more assertive phase at the company.
[August 15, 2005, 9:15]
Consortium to push Debian to the fore
News Ian Murdock, founder of Debian and also the chairman of Linux provider Progeny — one of the founding members of this consortium — said on Monday that around 10 or 12 organisations have already joined the Debian Core Consortium (DCC) and at least...
[July 26, 2005, 18:10]
Debian team confirm Linux flaw allowed attack
News Despite a two-month delay in releasing a patch, Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian and the chairman of Linux distribution maintenance provider Progeny, praised the project team. Murdock is a developer on the team but no longer has day-to-day...
[December 2, 2003, 10:15]
Corel Linux plans up in the air
News When contacted for comment on the rumour, Ian Murdock, president and CEO of Progeny said, "If Corel Linux is discontinued, Progeny would be glad to discuss supplying Corel with a Debian-based operating system.
[November 21, 2000, 8:10]
Sun reveals project to help OpenSolaris
News And although Foster said the project is intended to be grassroots and consensus-driven, "there may be a real need for a sole arbiter, Ian Murdock", who is Sun's chief operating systems officer and a founder of the Debian version of Linux.
[June 1, 2007, 8:25]
Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
News It's all about making developers more productive," Ian Murdock, Sun's vice president of developer and community marketing, said in a statement. Sun on Wednesday introduced a version of the open-source NetBeans integrated development environment...
[November 20, 2008, 14:03]
