Carsten Haitzler

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Carsten Haitzler
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Carsten Haitzler in light blue shirt, centre
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Nationality Australian; German
Alma mater University of New South Wales
Occupation Software engineer
Website www.rasterman.com

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 Enlightenment window manager and its libraries. [1]

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Life and work

In 1997 Haitzler moved to North Carolina, U.S. to work for Red Hat in the development of the CORBA, [2] Xlib, GTK+ libraries, then later moved to work with VA Linux Systems. [3]

Between 2010 and 2018 he worked on Samsung's Linux platform Tizen. [4] [5] [6]

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References

  1. Haitzler, Carsten (31 October 2012). "Seeking Enlightenment". The H online (Interview). Interviewed by Fabian A. Scherschel. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. "Carsten Haitzler departs Red Hat". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2006-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. "Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2000". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2006-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. Haitzler, Carsten (15 January 2012). "Interview: Carsten Haitzler". FOSDEM (Interview). Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  5. Haitzler, Carsten. "CV/Resumé" (PDF). Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  6. Haitzler, Carsten. "Profile". Linkedin. Retrieved 2 September 2022.