Peter MacDonald (computer programmer)

Peter MacDonald
Born
Peter Charles MacDonald

(1957-06-28) June 28, 1957
Victoria, British Columbia
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Victoria (BSc 1989, MSc 1996)

Peter MacDonald is a Canadian software engineer, best known as the creator of Softlanding Linux System (SLS), widely regarded as the first complete Linux distribution. Some of his work served as a foundation of Wine. He also created the Tcl web browser BrowseX, and the PDQI suite of Tcl utilities.

Current projects include Jsish, an embeddable JavaScript interpreter with builtin type-checking.

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