Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International [1] (http://www.li.org), a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux operating system. During his career which spans over thirty years, Jon Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, author, consultant to local, state and national governments worldwide and college educator. He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and is currently funded by SGI. Linux International is a non-profit organization which takes care of the Linux trademark and generally all matters Linux. ... Tux, a lovable and cuddly penguin sitting down after having gorged itself on herring, is the official Linux mascot. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... In computing, a programmer is someone who does computer programming and develops computer software. ... A system administrator is a person responsible for running, or running some aspect of, a computer system. ... For other uses, see Aetna (disambiguation). ... Bell Telephone Laboratories or Bell Labs was originally the research and development arm of the United States Bell System, and was the premier corporate facility of its type, developing a range of revolutionary technologies from telephone switches to specialized coverings for telephone cables, to the transistor. ... Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. ... LNUX stock price (09-Dec-1999 through 09-Dec-2000) VA Software Corporation (NASDAQ: LNUX), formerly VA Linux Systems (and VA Research before that), is the provider of the SourceForge Development Intelligence application. ... Current Silicon Graphics logo. ...

Jon Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations, including the USENIX Association. He is a well known elder statesman of the programming community, and a leader of the open source movement. The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Technical Association. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

The nickname "maddog" was given to him by his students at Hartford State Technical College, where he was the Department Head of Computer Science. He now prefers to be called by this name. He holds a MS in Computer Science from RPI (1977) and a BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973). RPI is an abbreviation for a number of terms, including: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rose Polytechnic Institute Retail price index Roll position indicator Repetitive motion injury, usually RSI Revista da Propriedade Industrial Rockwell protocol interface Ratings Percentage Index This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Drexel University is an institution of higher learning located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...