CDRTools died by CDRTools

After a long sickness (oncology) at the age of 66 years, died Yorg Schilling (Jörg Schilling), which actively contributed to the development of open and open standards. The most famous projects of Jorag were CDRTools , a set of utilities for writing data on CD / DVD, and Star , the first open implementation of the TAR utility released in 1982. Jorg also participated in working on POSIX standards and was Involved in the development of OpenSolaris and the distribution schillix .

From Yorga projects can also be noted SMAKE (implementation of the Make utility), BOSH (Form Bash), Sing (Fork Autoconf), SCCS (Fork SCCS), Shims (Universal API, independent of OS), VED (visual editor) , LIBFIND (Library with Find, Libxtermcap utility functionality (Advanced version of the TermCAP library) and libscg (driver and library for SCSI devices).

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