Harald Dunkel
| Account name | harri |
|---|---|
| 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
| Started | Last | Target | Applicant | UID | Status | AM |
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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 |
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