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Co-founder of Red Hat, Inc. Marc Ewing is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. [1] He was involved in the 86open project in the mid-1990s.
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Computer engineer, entrepreneur
Red Hat® Inc. began when a small businessman met a geek at a tech conference. Marc Ewing was the geek—hacking, debugging, and spinning his own distribution of Linux® on CDs from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bob Young was the businessman—running a computer supply catalog business out of his home in Connecticut.
- Red Hat was founded on March 26, 1993.
- Red Hat got its name from founder Marc Ewing who wore a red Cornell University lacrosse hat, given to him by his grandfather, while attending Carnegie Mellon University.
- Red Hat contributes to more than 450 open source projects from all aspects of the software stack, from the operating system and developer toolchain to middleware, the desktop, and the cloud.
- Red Hat Linux first appeared in 1994, with an October release called appropriately: Halloween.
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Well before Marc Ewing founded Red Hat with Bob Young, he worked as a student in the computer lab at Carnegie Mellon. Marc’s job was to help other students. He was, by all accounts, highly competent and pretty friendly for an IT guy.
Dec 19, 2006 · As for the name Red Hat specifically, fellow co-founder Marc Ewing also had an affinity for red hats and wore his grandfather’s red lacrosse hat during his time at Carnegie Mellon...
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Apr 26, 1999 · DURHAM, N.C. -- Red Hat Inc. co-founder Marc Ewing planted the roots for Red Hat software in 1993, while studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Ewing,...
Jul 17, 2019 · Marc Ewing was a happy hacker spinning his distribution of Linux on CDs from his Raleigh, N.C., home. He called it Red Hat after his grandfather's red Cornell University lacrosse cap,...
