Jordan Hubbard
Hubbard in 2010
Born (1963-04-08) April 8, 1963 (age 60)
Honolulu, Hawaii
Occupation(s)Sr Director, NVIDIA
Known forFreeBSD, NextBSD, FreeNAS Corral

Jordan K. Hubbard (born April 8, 1963) is an open source software developer, authoring software such as the Ardent Window Manager and various other open source tools and libraries before co-founding the FreeBSD project[1] with Nate Williams and Rodney W. Grimes in 1993,[2] for which he contributed the initial FreeBSD Ports collection, package management system and sysinstall. In July 2001 Hubbard joined Apple Computer in the role of manager of the BSD technology group,[3] during which time he was one of the creators of MacPorts. In 2005, his title was "Director of UNIX Technology"[4] and in October 2007, Hubbard was promoted to "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple where he remained until June 2013.[5]

On July 15, 2013, he became CTO of iXsystems where he also led the FreeNAS open source project.[6][7]

On March 24, 2017, he announced his plan to depart from iXsystems and that he would be joining TwoPoreGuys, a Biotechnology company, as VP of Engineering.[8][9][10][11] From January 2019–April 2020 he was part of the Engineering Leadership team at Uber and, as of April 2020, is currently Sr. Director for GPU Compute SW at Nvidia.[12]

rwall incident

On March 31, 1987 Hubbard executed an rwall command expecting it to send a message to every machine on the network at University of California, Berkeley, where he headed the Distributed Unix Group. The command instead began broadcasting Hubbard's message to every machine on the internet and was stopped after Hubbard realised the message was being broadcast remotely after he received complaints from people at Purdue University and University of Texas. Even though the command was terminated, it resulted in Hubbard receiving 743 messages and complaints.[13]

References

  1. ^ Tiemann, Brian; Urban, Michael (2003). FreeBSD Unleashed (2 ed.). Sams Publishing. p. 408. ISBN 9780672324567. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  2. ^ "About the FreeBSD Project". Retrieved 2013-11-26.
  3. ^ "Jordan Hubbard joins Apple Computer". 2001-06-25. Archived from the original on 2013-11-26. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
  4. ^ "FreeBSD founder quits Apple to focus on Big Data". Telecoms.com. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Apple software engineering director departs after 12 years to join iXsystems". AppleInsider. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  6. ^ Apple's Jordan Hubbard Joins iXsystems. Prweb.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-19.
  7. ^ Creating FreeNAS 10
  8. ^ "Terms of Service Violation". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  9. ^ Jordan Hubbard FreeNas Forums announcement
  10. ^ Jordan Hubbard Twitter announcement
  11. ^ "TwoPoreGuys Management Page". Archived from the original on 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  12. ^ Jordan Hubbard on LinkedIn
  13. ^ Jordan K. Hubbard. "My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]". The Risks Digest.

External links

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Berkeley Software Distribution
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