Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42

Posted by BernardSwiss on Dec 30, 2015 9:06 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Sean Gallagher
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Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO Ben Golub, came after an apparent encounter with police and a statement posted on Murdock's Twitter feed that he was going to commit suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

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