LinuxPower: An interview with Wichert Akkerman, Debian GNU/Linux project leader | Linux Today

LinuxPower: An interview with Wichert Akkerman, Debian GNU/Linux project leader

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 17, 1999

“It does worry me a bit that a lot of people who see Linux the
first time immediately seem to think that Linux == Red Hat…” —
Wichert Akkerman

“Barath: How long have you been involved with Debian
development? Free software development in general?”

“Actually development was my first contact with Debian,
somewhere beginning 1995. I had a patch to make strace work with
the then new ELF-format. When I sent that to the maintainer of the
strace package he responded by asking me if I wanted to take over
the strace package from him. That was also my first contact with
free software development in general, before that I mostly was
playing with turbo pascal in DOS.”

Complete
interview
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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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