Marc Ewing
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Marc Ewing is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions.<ref name="cenet"/> He was involved in the 86open project in the mid-1990s.
Early lifeEdit
The son of an IBM programmer, Marc Ewing attended computer camps as a child, and spent time learning to write programs for Apollo and Commodore computers.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. While at CMU, he was known to wear a red hat.<ref name="cenet" /> Because of his computer expertise, people would ask for help from the "man in the red hat".Template:Cn
CareerEdit
Following his college education, Ewing began work as an engineer at IBM.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While at IBM, he spent substantial time customizing Linux workstation installations. From this work, he began the Red Hat Linux Project. Ewing and co-founder Bob Young named their software Red Hat after Ewing's red hat.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
At the height of the dot com bubble in 1999, Ewing briefly had a net worth of 900 million dollars.<ref name="cenet">Template:Cite interview</ref>
Ewing left Red Hat, and co-founded the mountaineering-focused Alpinist quarterly publication in 2002.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He later began competing in desert racing, and co-founded the Riot Racing team in 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>