Carsten Haitzler Explained

Carsten Haitzler
Birth Place:	Nigeria
Nationality:	Australian; German
Occupation:	Software engineer
Alma Mater:	University of New South Wales

Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian-German software engineer, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment window manager and its libraries.^[1]

Life and work

In 1997 Haitzler moved to North Carolina, U.S. to work for Red Hat in the development of the CORBA,^[2] Xlib, GTK+ libraries, then later moved to work with VA Linux Systems.^[3]

Between 2010 and 2018 he worked on Samsung's Linux platform Tizen.^{[4] [5] [6]}

External links

• Carsten Rasterman Haitzler's private site
• LWN Linux Timeline, June, 1999.
• ESD White Paper, RHS 1999.
• Fluffy Spider Technologies website.
• Linux 2000 UK Linux Developers' Conference.
• SLUG codefest February, 2003.
  • Web site: RHS Newsletter, January 1998. . 2006-09-12 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20080517110316/http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/mailarchive/9801/msg00053.html . 2008-05-17 .
• Forum thread on the topic of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

Notes and References

1. Haitzler, Carsten . Seeking Enlightenment . Fabian A. Scherschel . The H online . 31 October 2012 . 26 June 2017.
2. Web site: Carsten Haitzler departs Red Hat . 2006-09-12 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20120323094009/http://www.dsj.net/compedge/rasterman.html . 2012-03-23 .
3. Web site: Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2000 . 2006-09-12 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20100706020044/http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2000/x.php . 2010-07-06 .
4. Haitzler, Carsten . Interview: Carsten Haitzler . FOSDEM . 15 January 2012 . 26 June 2017.
5. Web site: Haitzler . Carsten . CV/Resumé . 2 September 2022.
6. Web site: Haitzler . Carsten . Profile . Linkedin . 2 September 2022.