Ian Jackson (computer programmer)

Computer programmer

Not to be confused with Ian Murdock.

For the basketball player, see Ian Jackson (basketball).

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Ian Jackson is a longtime free software author and Debian developer. Jackson wrote dpkg ^[1]^[2]^[3] (replacing a more primitive Perl tool with the same name), SAUCE (Software Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), userv and debbugs. He used to maintain the Linux FAQ. He runs chiark.greenend.org.uk, a Linux system which is home to PuTTY among other things.

As of October 2021, he works for the Tor Project.^[4]^[5] He has previously worked for Citrix,^[6]^[7] Canonical,^[8] and nCipher.^[9]

Jackson became Debian Project Leader in January 1998, and Wichert Akkerman took his place in 1999.^[10]^[2] Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm) was released during his term. During that time he was also a vice-president and then president of Software in the Public Interest in 1998 and 1999.

Jackson received a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University in 1998. His PhD thesis was entitled Who goes here ? Confidentiality of location through anonymity.^[11]

Jackson was a member of the Debian Technical Committee^[12] until November 2014 when he resigned^[13] as a result of controversies around the proposed use of systemd in Debian.^[14]

Additional works

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authbind (1998), an open-source system utility

References

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^ "dpkg/dpkg.git/blob - AUTHORS". anonscm.debian.org. 2010年02月20日. Archived from the original on 2013年05月20日. Retrieved 2013年05月17日.
^ ^a ^b "A Brief History of Debian: Chapter 4 - A Detailed History". Debian . 2013年05月04日. Retrieved 2013年05月17日.
^ Perens, Bruce (1995年09月05日). "redhat packaging system and dpkg" . Retrieved 2013年05月17日.
^ Jackson, Ian. "diziet | Going to work for the Tor Project". diziet.dreamwidth.org. Retrieved 2022年05月20日.
^ "Tor Project | Software Developer, Rust". 2021年07月21日. Archived from the original on 2021年07月21日. Retrieved 2022年05月20日.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ Sharwood, Simon. "No, we're not sorry for Xen security SNAFUs says Ian Jackson". The Register . Retrieved 18 September 2018.
^ "FOSDEM 2013 - Ian Jackson". fosdem.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
^ "Künftiges Init-System der Linux-Distribution Debian: Zwischen Patt und allgemeiner Abstimmung". Heise Online (in German). 20 January 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
^ Hertzog, Raphaël; Mas, Roland (2015). The Debian Administrator's Handbook: Debian Jessie From Discovery To Mastery. Freexian. p. 99. ISBN 9791091414012 . Retrieved 18 September 2018.
^ "Debian GNU/Linux – Debian's Organizational Structure (05 December 2000)". Archived from the original on 5 December 2000. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
^ Jackson, Ian (1998年06月29日). Who goes here ? Confidentiality of location through anonymity. Cambridge University . Retrieved 2013年05月17日 – via chiark.greenend.org.uk.
^ "Debian's Organizational Structure". Debian . Retrieved 13 June 2013.
^ Jackson, Ian (19 November 2014). "Resignation". Debian Mailing List. Retrieved 19 November 2014. I am resigning from the Technical Committee with immediate effect. While it is important that the views of the 30-40% of the project who agree with me should continue to be represented on the TC, I myself am clearly too controversial a figure at this point to do so. I should step aside to try to reduce the extent to which conversations about the project's governance are personalised.
^ Gold, Jon (19 November 2014). "Open-source devs vote down anti-systemd measure, sponsor steps down". Network World . Retrieved 18 September 2018.