About Ian Jackson
Born 2000. Ian Jackson is an engineer and computer scientist.
Ian Jackson is a longtime free software author and Debian developer. Jackson wrote dpkg (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. He has previously worked for Citrix, Canonical, and nCipher.
Jackson became Debian Project Leader in January 1998, and Wichert Akkerman took his place in 1999.
Jackson was a member of the Debian Technical Committee until November 2014 when he resigned as a result of controversies around the proposed use of systemd in Debian.
Additional works authbind (1998), an open-source system utility
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