How Bdale Found Debian


The Early Days

A GPS receiver project for AMSAT AO-40 needed development tools for an embedded AMD 29200 CPU system.
Bruce Perens' "Linux for Hams" project.
Package maintainer, contributed amateur radio software packages.
Early infrastructure for Debian at HP.
Helped start Alpha, Sparc, and ARM ports.

More Recently

PARISC and IA-64 ports of Debian
Working for HP on Linux Full-Time since May 2001
Debian Project Leader