Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2007

The 24th day

The Linux People

Here is a list of people that I think one should know or at least heard about. I have linked them to the appropiate article at wikipedia so you can read about them over the holidays:

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation
Jamie Zawinski, The internet pioneer
Ian Murdock, initiator of the Debian project
Matthias Ettrich, inventor of the KDE Desktop Environment
Alan Cox, Kernel hacker
Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Bruce Perens, former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader
Larry Wall, author of Perl
Guido van Rossum, author of Python

I wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year!

Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2007

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