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Not sure if Ian Murdock had a say in the naming but his family was from Indiana.
by weinzierl 1y ago
Not sure if Ian Murdock had a say in the naming but his family was from Indiana.
- giancarlostoro 1y ago> OpenIndiana takes its name from Project Indiana, the internal codename for OpenSolaris at Sun Microsystems before Oracle’s acquisition of Sun in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana#History
- tomwheeler 1y agoIan Murdock, who grew up in Indiana, joined Sun Microsystems in early 2007 to lead Project OpenIndiana.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoYeah, just thought the wikipedia kind of cleared that up, Ian Murdock was an interesting fellow.
- jeberle 1y agoI think what's important is that the name matches on /ian/.