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Alistair CrooksPresident of The NetBSD Foundation.
Date of Birth: 28.04.1959
Country:  Great Britain |
Content:
- Alistair Crooks
- NetBSD Contributions
- Early Life and Education
- - 1992-1998: With Amdahl (acquired by Fujitsu in 1997)
- - Developed, enhanced, and administered ACE-ii.com
- - Managed The NetBSD Foundation since its inception in 2002
Alistair Crooks
Alistair Crooks is the President of The NetBSD Foundation, a role he has held since 1999. His involvement with NetBSD began in 1993 as a user and occasional contributor, and he became a core developer in 1997.
NetBSD Contributions
Crooks is also the developer and founder of the pkgsrc package management system. He has ported pkgsrc to Sun Solaris and Mac OS X and contributed common boot code that allows pkgsrc to run on most POSIX-compliant operating systems.
Early Life and Education
- Earned a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow- First exposure to Unix in 1978 on a PDP-11/45 running UNIX V6
- Married with two children, resides in the United Kingdom
Career History
- 1984-1992: Unix security consulting for three years in the Netherlands and three years in Germany
- 1992-1998: With Amdahl (acquired by Fujitsu in 1997)
- Administrated database and web infrastructure in a Unix environment for Commerzbank Securities in London
- Developed, enhanced, and administered ACE-ii.com
- Previously a development engineer at Wasabi Systems- Involved in NetBSD development since 1993, previously involved with 386BSD
- 1997 onwards: Installing and updating third-party operating system management software for NetBSD, including porting software to new platforms
- Managed The NetBSD Foundation since its inception in 2002
- Authored and presented numerous technical papers at various conferences
