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Rob Savoye is the primary developer of
Gnash. He is a developer for the
GNU Project
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, having worked on
Debian
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,
Red Hat
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Red Hat has become ass ...
and dozens of other
free/
open source software
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projects. He was among the first employees of
Cygnus Support
Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software. Its tagline was: ''Making free software affordable''.
For years, employee ...
, which was sold to Red Hat in 2001.
Activities
He began programming computers in 1977 using Fortran 4. Some of the projects he has worked on include the
GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is an optimizing compiler produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) distributes GCC as free software ...
,
GNU Debugger
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History
GDB was first written by ...
,
Contributors to GDB
/ref> DejaGnu
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, Newlib
Newlib is a C standard library implementation intended for use on embedded systems. It is a conglomeration of several library parts, all under free software licenses that make them easily usable on embedded products.
It was created by Cygnus S ...
, Libgloss, Cygwin
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The Cygwin in ...
, eCos
The Embedded Configurable Operating System (eCos) is a free and open-source real-time operating system intended for embedded systems and applications which need only one process with multiple threads. It is designed to be customizable to prec ...
, the Center-TRACON Automation System, Expect
Expect is an extension to the Tcl scripting language written by Don Libes. The program automates interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface. Expect, originally written in 1990 for the Unix platform, has since become avail ...
, multiple major Linux distributions, and One Laptop Per Child.
Rob Savoye manages an unofficial website for the Rainbow Family
The Rainbow Family of Living Light is a counter-culture, in existence since approximately 1970. It is a loose affiliation of individuals, some nomadic, generally asserting that it has no leader. They put on yearly, primitive camping events on ...
of Living Light.
He resides outside of Nederland, Colorado
Nederland (, ) is a statutory town located near Barker Meadow Reservoir in the foothills of southwest Boulder County, Colorado, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census it had a population of 1,445.
History
Nederland was established in ...
and is an avid ice climber and outdoorsman. Additionally, Rob is involved in search and rescue of lost and stranded hikers and climbers, and is a founding member of IMSAR (the Ilchester Mountain Search and Rescue organization).
Awards
At Libre Planet 2011, Savoye received the individual achievement FSF Award for the advancement of Free Software
Free Software Foundation (FSF) grants two annual awards. Since 1998, FSF has granted the award for Advancement of Free Software and since 2005, also the Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
Presentation ceremonies
In 1999 it was pr ...
for decades of work on free software projects, particularly his leading role in the development of Gnash.
References
External links
Home Page
Welcomehome.org
unofficial homepage of the Rainbow Family of Living Light
* O'Reilly EuroOSCON
Rob Savoye of Gnash
(video)
FLOSS Weekly, Episode 94, November 5th, 2009
– Interview on Gnash
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Computer programmers
GNU people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)