Ian Jackson
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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.
Jackson has a PhD in Computer Science[4] from Cambridge University. As of October 2021, he works for the Tor Project.[5][6] He has previously worked for Citrix[7][8] for Canonical Ltd.[9] and nCipher Corporation.[10]
Jackson became Debian Project Leader in January 1998, before Wichert Akkerman took his place in 1999.[11][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 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]
- authbind (1998), an Open-source system utility
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