Daniel Robbins (computer programmer)
| Daniel Robbins | |
|---|---|
| Born | Montreal, Quebec |
| Residence | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Organization | Funtoo Technologies |
| Known for | Free Software, Hacker, Gentoo, Funtoo |
| Website | www |
Daniel Robbins is a computer programmer and consultant best known as the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project. In 2008, he launched the Funtoo project, a free Linux distribution based on Gentoo, and is the project's lead hacker and organizer. He also currently works at the same time in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as 'Open Source/Community Strategy Lead' at Zenoss, and as president for Funtoo Technologies.
During his time as a system administrator at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque Robbins formed his own distribution Enoch Linux, which was later renamed Gentoo in 2002.
However, like many other free software projects, Gentoo struggled to create a business model which would support its key developers. Robbins resigned as Chief Architect on 26 April 2004, citing considerable personal debt, and a desire to spend more time with his family, formed the Gentoo Foundation and transferred all Gentoo intellectual property to it, so that Gentoo is now run as a full community-based model. He did rejoin the project for a short time from August 2006, becoming a developer again in February 2007 and joining the amd64 team but resigned in early March 2007.
There have been several high-profile criticisms of the way Gentoo has run since Robbins left, such as: "...since the resignation of Gentoo's founder and benevolent dictator from the project in 2004, the newly established Gentoo Foundation has been battling with lack of clear directions and frequent developer conflicts...", but in mid-July 2007 it emerged that Robbins was still technically the legal president of the Gentoo Foundation:
...I would like to see more fun in Gentoo, and a lot less politics, and in my apparent role as President of the Gentoo Foundation, I may have an opportunity to change things for the better. I will need to look into this more...
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