Re: [SLUG] Well-known contributors to Ubuntu history
Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz have been doing a great podcast for a few years now that seems to have done a good job of picking a lot of the prominent projects and associated luminaries in free and open-source software, FLOSS Weekly. The list of previous episodes is worth looking through at http://twit.tv/FLOSS and Randal is crowd-sourcing his list of those he would like to interview at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYAJMbVobYCTro_z4LGo3ZQ Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jon jonjer...@optusnet.com.au wrote: I'm putting together a book about Ubuntu, and I would like to include a list of people who have made the most significant contributions to the development of Ubuntu and Linux in general. I have the usual suspects -- Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Andrew Tanenbaum, Ian Murdock, Mark Shuttleworth -- but after that it's hard to clearly see who stands out. Perhaps some of you who have a longer history with Linux than I do could indicate who really made a difference for you, and why. I want to say something more than 'X is a really great developer' if I can. Pointers to quotes or interviews would be handy too. Thanks in advance, Jon. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Well-known contributors to Ubuntu history
I'm putting together a book about Ubuntu, and I would like to include a list of people who have made the most significant contributions to the development of Ubuntu and Linux in general. I have the usual suspects -- Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Andrew Tanenbaum, Ian Murdock, Mark Shuttleworth -- but after that it's hard to clearly see who stands out. Perhaps some of you who have a longer history with Linux than I do could indicate who really made a difference for you, and why. I want to say something more than 'X is a really great developer' if I can. Pointers to quotes or interviews would be handy too. Thanks in advance, Jon. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Well-known contributors to Ubuntu history
On 07/14/2009 04:27 PM, Jon wrote: I'm putting together a book about Ubuntu, and I would like to include a list of people who have made the most significant contributions to the development of Ubuntu and Linux in general. I have the usual suspects -- Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Andrew Tanenbaum, Ian Murdock, Mark Shuttleworth -- but after that it's hard to clearly see who stands out. Perhaps some of you who have a longer history with Linux than I do could indicate who really made a difference for you, and why. I want to say something more than 'X is a really great developer' if I can. Pointers to quotes or interviews would be handy too. Thanks in advance, Jon. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Well-known contributors to Ubuntu history
On 07/14/2009 04:27 PM, Jon wrote: I'm putting together a book about Ubuntu, and I would like to include a list of people who have made the most significant contributions to the development of Ubuntu and Linux in general. I have the usual suspects -- Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Andrew Tanenbaum, Ian Murdock, Mark Shuttleworth -- but after that it's hard to clearly see who stands out. Perhaps some of you who have a longer history with Linux than I do could indicate who really made a difference for you, and why. I want to say something more than 'X is a really great developer' if I can. Pointers to quotes or interviews would be handy too. Thanks in advance, Jon. Hello Jon, You could look at some the authors found in the kernel Documentation files. There's heaps there. Ben (sorry earlier message lost the reply) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
