Striving for greatness

About Donnie Berkholz (me!)

I have vast experience at all levels of Linux-distribution creation and management at Gentoo Linux, where I’ve volunteered since 2003 to build and lead a Linux distribution of more than 250 dedicated people and personally maintain nearly 400 packages. I’m working to transform Gentoo into a great distribution. My primary focus is on high-level questions, although I do get down and dirty as a core developer. I’ve worked in areas including leading our public relations team, maintaining the X window system, deciding on global Gentoo issues as part of our elected council, managing our desktop efforts, and working with scientific and clustering applications. I often write about Gentoo as a guest author for LWN.net, the best Linux news site (in my humble opinion).

I’m also an IT industry analyst at RedMonk (as of Dec. 1, 2011). I do data-driven analysis of software development, from the perspective of developers as the driving force behind adoption of new technology.

About this blog

My posts typically relate to topics including building greatness, improving communication, and my work on Gentoo and the X window system.

Contact info

E-mail: dberkholz@gentoo.org

LinkedIn: Public profile

Phone: 612-991-1321