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

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operating system distributions. He was involved in the 86open project in the mid-1990s.

Early life

The son of an IBM programmer, Marc Ewing attended computer camps as a child, and spent time learning to write programs for

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and

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computers. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. While at CMU, he was known to wear a red hat. Because of his computer expertise, people would ask for help from the "man in the red hat".

Career

Following his college education, Ewing began work as engineer at IBM. While at IBM, he spent substantial time customizing

workstation installations. From this work, he began the Red Hat Linux Project. Ewing and co-founder Bob Young named their software Red Hat after Ewing's red hat. At the height of the dot com bubble in 1999, Ewing briefly had a net worth of 900 million dollars. Ewing left Red Hat, and co-founded the mountaineering-focused '' Alpinist'' quarterly publication in 2002. He later began competing in

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, and co-founded the Riot Racing team in 2008.

References

External links

* http://www.salon.com/tech/view/1999/10/04/marc_ewing/ Red Hat people Open source people Living people Carnegie Mellon University alumni IBM employees 1969 births {{compu-bio-stub