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During his time with Digital Equipment Corporation that he initially became interested in Linux, and was instrumental in obtaining equipment and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first port, to Digital's Alpha platform. It was also in this general timeframe that Hall, who lives in New Hampshire, started the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users' Group. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations, including the USENIX Association. At the UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, Hall was honoured with a Lifetime Recognition Award for his services to the open source community. Hall holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1977) and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973).

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Jon Hall (programmer)

Programmer and major contributor to the Linux project

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Jon "maddog" Hall (born 7 August 1950) is the board chair for the Linux Professional Institute.

Early life

Hall helped his father assemble toys at a toy store, and had three years of high school electronics shop.[1]

Career

The nickname "maddog" was given to him by his students at Hartford State Technical College, where he was the Department Head of Computer Science. He now prefers to be called by this name. According to Hall, his nickname "came from a time when I had less control over my temper".[2]

He has worked for Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty,[3]Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital), VA Linux Systems, and Silicon Graphics (SGI). He was the CTO and ambassador of the now defunct computer appliance company Koolu.[4]

It was during his time with Digital that he initially became interested in Linux and was instrumental in

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John 'Daddy' Hall story gets a national audience

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The story of John “Daddy” Hall has made it to prime time, a place the former Owen Sound resident has long deserved to be according to the director of a new four-part documentary series airing on national television.

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Hall’s story is set to air on Friday at 9 p.m. on Global TV as part of BLK: An Origin Story, a four-part doc series about Black Canadians and how they helped shape the country. The show aired on the History Channel on Saturday.

On Wednesday, series writer and director Sudz Sutherland said using Hall’s story to help profile the lives of Black people in what was then known as Upper Canada just made sense because of all that he experienced in his life.

“He covers a lot of bases,” Sutherland said of Hall. “Just the fact he was a guy who fought in the War of 1812, was wounded, captured and then sold into slavery.

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