Steve McIntyre
Encyclopedia
Steve McIntyre is a software engineer
and a long-time Debian
developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images
; he is the debian-cd team leader and is responsible for generating the official images.
McIntyre ran for the post of Debian Project Leader in 2006 and 2007 but was defeated. During the 2006 term, he acted as "Second in charge" of the Debian Project. In 2008 he was elected the Debian Project Leader, and was re-elected in 2009. He chose not to run in the 2010 election; that election was won by Stefano Zacchiroli.
Born in Wigan
, England
, McIntyre now lives in Cambridge
and works for ARM Holdings
.
Software engineer
A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software, such as computer chips, work.- Overview :...
and a long-time Debian
Debian
Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...
developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images
ISO image
An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system...
; he is the debian-cd team leader and is responsible for generating the official images.
McIntyre ran for the post of Debian Project Leader in 2006 and 2007 but was defeated. During the 2006 term, he acted as "Second in charge" of the Debian Project. In 2008 he was elected the Debian Project Leader, and was re-elected in 2009. He chose not to run in the 2010 election; that election was won by Stefano Zacchiroli.
Born in Wigan
Wigan
Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town of Wigan had a total...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, McIntyre now lives in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
and works for ARM Holdings
ARM Holdings
ARM Holdings plc is a British multinational semiconductor and software company headquartered in Cambridge. Its largest business is in processors, although it also designs, licenses and sells software development tools under the RealView and KEIL brands, systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip...
.