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Thomas Dunbar
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Thomas Dunbar : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
Another mathematician who spent some time with the Linux
OS during its formative years is Thomas Dunbar. ``Getting TeX/METAFONT
running on Linux'' was his most significant contribution to the
operating system. Thomas had been using MINIX and doing technical
typesetting work with TeX when he first started thinking of Linux as a
way to move from his life as a math professor into ``something
computer-related.'' Says Thomas,
I needed a low-cost, programmer-friendly OS that could use minimal PC
hardware. There were no barriers, neither technical nor social, to
helping with Linux development.
Like many kernel hackers, while working over the Internet was both a fun
and necessary part of working on Linux, Thomas never saw the Internet
part of his work as particularly revolutionary--although it did play a
positive role in promoting ``family values.'' As Thomas tells it,
Linux coming along right when the Net was opening up was very fortunate.
I did not feel this myself too much, as I already had professional
contacts. However, I know this was very significant for my son, Daniel,
who was just entering [his] teens when ``we'' started using Linux. The
resulting accessibility of expert developers provided an alternative to
the normal college, job training ...
Thomas still uses Linux on his desktop (as does his secretary), although
he hasn't done any development work since his early TeX/METAFONT days.
He sees commercialism as something that has, for the most part, helped
increase the popularity and use of Linux--yet he doesn't believe Linux
will become the ``dominant desktop.''
Currently, Thomas is senior DBA for the Warehousing group at Virginia
Tech and also CEO of a little WebCyS shop, diads.com. Says Thomas,
My work is almost exclusively Oracle-related with databases running on
Sun/Solaris (though that is migrating a bit to Linux) with Linux being a
convenient client platform for system administration and database
administration of the systems.
What is the most important thing to him about Linux today? ``Keep it fun
and sociable, wherever that leads,'' Thomas says. ``The more popular,
the better, in my opinion.''
Thomas Dunbar's e-mail address is
tdunbar@vt.edu.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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