I'm proud to say that my company is running Linux on 90 percent of our systems, from G4 PPC development workstations to a Beowulf cluster running on Quad XEON and dual-Pentium III boxes. At first it was mostly curiosity and then slowly I started to build some useful stuff for the office - like Web servers, gateways, print servers, Samba servers - and the rest is history. : How, why, and when did you first get involved with Linux?Įrik Masson: Wow, I guess it all started in 1993 with the Yggdrasil distribution. We caught up with him recently to ask about the rest of the story - how he got involved with Linux, how he came to work on the IMD port, and what's going on with his project. Erik got involved with Irix back in the early '90s when he needed a powerful workstation for architectural visualization. Masson has been working with graphics and high-performance computing development ever since he got his first computer, a VIC-20, in 1981.
With a background in architecture (buildings, not computers) and computer science, he makes his living by building mission-critical systems for e-commerce. The project to port IMD to Linux resides at and is run by Erik Masson, a geek from Quebec who has been living in Hong Kong for the past seven and a half years.
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