Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian-German software engineer, best known for initiating and leading the development of the

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window manager and its libraries.

Life and work

Carsten Haitzler was born in

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of a

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father and Finnish mother, but soon moved with his family to

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where he lived until the age of four. Haitzler then moved to

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where he attended the

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, graduating with a

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. In 1997 Haitzler moved to

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to work for

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in the development of the CORBA, Xlib,

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libraries, then later moved to work with

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. In Sydney, Haitzler worked for Fluffy Spider Technologies where he refined, optimized and commercialized the basic

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(EFL) for Enlightenment 0.17. Fluffy Spider Technologies use some of EFL for their embedded Linux

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FancyPants. After working for

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in Tokyo, he worked for Openmoko, decided that it "turned out to be a non-working thing for me, so I resigned". Between 2010 and 2018 he worked on Samsung's Linux platform

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. Other software Haitzler has contributed to includes Electric Eyes, GTK+ theme engines, Imlib, Imlib2 and Epplets.

References

External links

Carsten ''Rasterman'' Haitzler's private siteLWN Linux Timeline, June, 1999.ESD White Paper, RHS 1999.Fluffy Spider Technologies website

Linux 2000 UK Linux Developers' Conference.
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haitzler, Carsten Living people 1975 births University of New South Wales alumni Geeknet Australian people of German descent Australian people of Finnish descent German people of Finnish descent