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{{Short description|American computer engineer and entrepreneur}}
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| nationality        = [[United States|American]]
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| education          = [[Carnegie Mellon University]]
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| known_for          = Creator of [[Red Hat Linux]]<br/>Co-founder of [[Red Hat|Red Hat, Inc.]]
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'''Marc Ewing''' is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is the creator and originator of the [[Red Hat]] brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of [[Linux]] operating system distributions.<ref name="cenet"/> He was involved in the [[86open]] project in the mid-1990s.

==Early life==
The son of an [[IBM]] programmer, Marc Ewing attended [[Tech camp|computer camps]] as a child, and spent time learning to write programs for [[Apollo Computer|Apollo]] and [[Commodore International|Commodore]] computers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-03/15/071r-031500-idx.html |title=A Chain Of Riches |first=Richard |last=Leiby |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=March 15, 2001 |access-date=September 6, 2022}}</ref> He graduated from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1992. While at CMU, he was known to wear a red hat.<ref name="cenet" /> Because of his computer expertise, people would ask for help from the "man in the red hat".{{cn|date=July 2022}}

==Career==
Following his college education, Ewing began work as an engineer at [[IBM]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://landley.net/history/mirror/linux/11-98.pdf |title=Business Models |first=Esther |last=Dyson |publisher=Release 1.0 |date=November 19, 1998 |access-date=September 6, 2022}}</ref> While at IBM, he spent substantial time customizing [[Linux]] workstation installations. From this work, he began the Red Hat Linux Project. Ewing and co-founder [[Bob Young (businessman)|Bob Young]] named their software [[Red Hat]] after Ewing's red hat.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20000106hells4.asp|title='Red Hat buys Hells Kitchen Systems'|access-date=2008-09-30 | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | first1=Rona | last1=Kobell | date=January 6, 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000304122651/http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20000106hells4.asp|archive-date=4 March 2000}}</ref>

At the height of the [[dot com bubble]] in 1999, Ewing briefly had a net worth of 900 million dollars.<ref name="cenet">{{cite interview |last=Ewing |first=Marc |interviewer=Stephen Shankland, Cnet News |title="Red Hat Founder Maps Linux Game Plan" |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/red-hat-founder-maps-linux-game-plan/ |access-date= |work=CBS Interactive |date=September 7, 1999}}</ref>

Ewing left Red Hat, and co-founded the [[mountaineering]]-focused ''[[Alpinist (magazine)|Alpinist]]'' quarterly publication in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/09/20/381152/index.htm |title=Rich kids The Google guys soar toward the top and a few humbled highfliers make comebacks |publisher=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=September 20, 2004 |access-date=September 6, 2022}}</ref> He later began competing in [[desert racing]], and co-founded the Riot Racing team in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dirtlifemagazine.com/riot-racing-meet-the-race-team |title=Riot Racing – Meet the Race Team |date=25 January 2011 |publisher=Dirt Life Magazine |access-date=September 6, 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* http://www.salon.com/tech/view/1999/10/04/marc_ewing/

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