Earlier this year, the developers of Debian elected Jonathan Carter, a South African based in Cape Town, as the Debian Project Lead.
Debian is a Linux distribution that is an important component in the free software and open-source ecosystems. Aside from being used as an operating system on servers and desktop computers, Debian is used as the foundation of several other popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu which was founded by Mark Shuttleworth (also a South African).
Impi Linux was developed in the mid-2000’s with the intention that SA government would start using it instead of Microsoft Windows, but with a change of political leadership, the plans also changed and SA went up the path of paying more annually for Microsoft licensing.
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MyBroadband interviews Jonathan Carter, the first South African to be elected as the Debian Project Lead.