Interview with Dustin Kirkland

This is the first in a series of interviews with Ubuntu developers about their work, and features that will be available in future versions.

Dustin Kirkland is a developer on Canonical’s Ubuntu Server Team, working from Austin, Texas, USA. He is the author of the highly anticipated encrypted private directories feature in the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 release. Previously, Dustin worked for IBM in various capacities, including as an on-site employee at Red Hat. There he discovered his interest in working with Linux at the distribution level, which eventually led him to Canonical.

Dustin was also interviewed separately for Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #114.

One thing you have worked on for Intrepid is Encrypted Private directories. Could you tell us a little about what they are, and why they might be useful to someone?

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