Image by Stephen Shankland

Today news arrived that broke my heart, Ian Murdock has passed away. I never met Ian but he had an enormous impact on my life, through his work.

Debian has been my operating system of choice for many years now, it runs on all of my servers and my home computers. Ian’s vision for the operating system is why I started using it and use it to this day. It’s why I’ve continued to work on the operating system and create packages of all of my work for it.

Ian is, without a doubt, one of the biggest influences on my career and on my life.

Farewell sir, you will be missed.