Miguel de icaza biography of alberta
Miguel de icaza biography of alberta
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Miguel de Icaza
Mexican free software developer (born 1972)
Miguel de Icaza (born November 23, 1972)[1] is a Mexican-Americanprogrammer and activist, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.[2]
Biography
Early years
De Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), but dropped out before getting a degree to work in IT.[3] He came from a family of scientists in which his father is a physicist and his mother a biologist.[4] He started writing free software in 1992.
Early software career
One of the earliest pieces of software he wrote for Linux was the Midnight Commander file manager in 1994, a text-mode file manager.[5] He was also one of the early contributors to the Wine project.[6]
He worked with David S.
Miller on the Linux SPARC port and wrote several of the video and network drivers in the port, as well as the libc po