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Comment by jitl

6 hours ago

Author has a Wikipedia page about him linked from his GitHub profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Hubbard

Summary:

- Co-created FreeBSD.

- Led UNIX technologies at Apple for 13 years

- iXSystems, lead FreeNAS

- idk something about Uber

- Senior Director for GPU Compute Software at NVIDIA

For whatever it’s worth.

a.k.a. jkh. That's a blast from the past. Back in the early FreeBSD days, Jordan was fielding mailing list traffic and holding the project together as people peppered the lists with questions, trying to get their systems running with their sundry bits of hardware. I wondered when he slept.

Apparently he did as well[1]: "The start of the 2.0 ports collection. No sup repository yet, but I'll make one when I wake up again.. :)" Submitted by: jkh Aug 21, 1994

[1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/7ca702f09f29...

Interesting commit starting Ports 2.0. Three version of bash, four versions of Emacs, plus jove.