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Encyclopedia > Marc Ewing

Marc Ewing is the enterprising creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. For the corporation that produces Red Hat Enterprise Linux, see Red Hat. ...


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Pulling a story about the company's name out of Red Hat - LinuxWorld (775 words)
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.
“When Marc was at university he used to name his software projects red hat – red hat one, red hat two – just to differentiate them from his friends.
In addition, Ewing became the go-to guy on campus for fellow students with PC problems, Young told the magazine.
The Story of the GNOME project (0 words)
Marc was creating the Red Hat Advanced Development Labs which would be the first funded team of developers that would work towards improving GNOME.
Marc Ewing and Michael Fullbright organized the GNOME summit: the first meeting where various GNOME developers would get together.
Various hackers were present: Chris Lahey, Larry Ewing, Adrian Likins, Raster, Tim Gerla, Jonathan Bladford, Rosanna Yuen, Matthew Wilson, Federico Mena, Marc Ewing, Michael Fullbright, Mark Chricton, Jay Painter, Alan Cox.
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