Debian Founder Takes Over LSB Leadership

Published: Feb 3, 2006
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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The Free Standards Group, the non-profit group behind the Linux Standard Base, has announced that Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock will be its new chief technology officer and will chair the LSB workgroup.

A spokesperson for the FSG said that as co-founder of Debian Linux and the commercial custom Linux distributor Progeny, Murdock brings unmatched experience building open-source communities, driving technical consensus and solving Linux distribution challenges. Murdock has also been one of the leaders of the DCC Alliance.

In this new job, Murdock will lead all technical initiatives for the FSG, including expanding the development communities involved in each of the FSGs workgroups, and will work directly with the open-source community, software developers, and systems and distribution vendors.

As LSB workgroup chair, Murdock will lead all workgroup activities and oversee the upcoming release of LSB 3.1. LSB 3.1 adds desktop functionality to the ISO standard LSB core. Art Tyde will continue as the FSGs chief certification officer.

“Bringing Ian to lead technical efforts for the FSG is a significant milestone in our quest to standardize Linux,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the FSG in a statement.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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