Harald Dunkel
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        Debian Maintainer
          
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            2025-08-25
            
          
          
    
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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
 
   
  
    * born 1963 in Germany (Cologne)
* first computer experience Commodore 8032, VIC-20, Apple II and CP/M
* moved to Aachen area…  Expand
  
 
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