Harald Dunkel

Account nameharri
OpenPGP fingerprint 1F65 7AD7 82DB 47FB B53B E6B5 0A9E 2A9E 66D3 81CB 0 Endorsements
Status Debian Maintainer since 2025-08-25

Short Biography

  • born 1963 in Germany (Cologne)
  • first computer experience Commodore 8032, VIC-20, Apple II and CP/M
  • moved to Aachen area in 1985
  • first touch with FOSS, BSD (Ultrix, SunOS), AIX and Linux (SLS, kernel 0.98.x(?)) at RWTH Aachen
  • Master in electrical engineering back in 1992 (master thesis: integration of massive transputer-based systems into computing center environment)
  • worked for a large manufacturer of transputer-based systems
  • worked for big EDA companies, maintaining Debian and RedHat systems, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris
  • currently working for a big French Bank, running a large scale Debian infrastructure (and a few RedHat and OpenBSD systems)
  • using Debian since Hamm
  • building my own Debian packages since 2000 (appr)
  • first packages included in Debian: xrsh, blockade
  • currently maintainer of mg, network-manager-strongswan, qmmp (on Salsa)
  • special interests: Debian, networking and firewalls, container-based virtualization (LXC, Kubernetes), VPNs, OpenBSD, pushing IPv6, ...
  • hobby: motorcycling

Personal history

New-style processes
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2025-08-06 2025-08-27 DD, upl. Harald Dunkel harri Closed
2025-08-06 2025-08-25 DM Harald Dunkel harri Closed
Old-style processes
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