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Ed Carp
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Ed Carp : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
Ed Carp, whose contributions to the Linux kernel include
work on cron, UUCP, Elm, Pine and pico, first ran into Linux in late
1991 when someone forwarded him the Linux project announcement from a
BSD newsgroup.
I was attracted to Linux because of the distributed development model. I
had looked at 386BSD, but the development model was completely
controlled by William Jolitz, who made releases about every six months,
and I couldn't wait for bug fixes that long.
Sound familiar? At the time, Ed was working at Sun Microsystems,
``downloading a full newsfeed via a Telebit modem to a XENIX box.'' When
his upstream newsfeed switched to HDB UUCP, and the XENIX UUCP could not
support the new protocols, Ed went searching. ``When I called SCO, they
quoted me $1500 to upgrade my very old XENIX. So I was in the market for
something cheaper and that I could tweak the source if I needed to.''
Insofar as Ed's Linux hacking rose directly from his computer needs,
UUCP, Sendmail and Elm were among his first Linux contributions. Of the
times, Ed remembers ``overnight, I became the application port guru.
People were e-mailing me from all over the world, trying to get their
applications ported over.'' He also counts driver and kernel work among
his larger contributions.
Unfortunately, nowadays many of those moving most quickly around the
Linux community are, for lack of a better word, the carpetbaggers. To
those people, Ed shows very little regard, admitting that
it is personally irritating to me to see folks who had never heard of
Linux come in with a little money, produce a distribution or a piece of
software, market it and be crowned by the popular media as some sort of
deity, while the people who have worked to make Linux a technically
viable operating system are virtually ignored.
Thus, Ed is not among those who believe that the hype of 1999 saved
Linux.
I think [Linux] would've survived regardless--there are a lot of
operating systems around that haven't received the publicity that Linux
has, and are doing quite well ... I think the popularity of Linux can be
a two-edged sword.
Ed is still involved with computers and, more importantly, still
involved with Linux. He says, ``I'm involved in two projects, one to
bring a port of Linux to a PowerPC platform for an embedded ATM
controller, and two to develop a new server-side scripting language for
the Web.''
And outside of computers?
I backpack, and am also involved in ham radio. I don't think I've wasted
my life. Working with computers has produced a lot of personal
satisfaction for me. I've written pager notification systems for severe
weather alerts, and I'd like to think that software has saved a life or
two along the way.
Ed Carp's e-mail address is erc@pobox.com.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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