Joey Hess

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Joey Hess is a prominent Debian Developer who is responsible for many parts that make up the Debian operating system today.

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Hess joined Debian in August 1996^[1], maintaining a few packages. Though these were initially some fairly niche packages such as pdmenu, he soon started work on debhelper, debconf, and more recently, debian-installer. debian-installer is the new installation program for Debian which for a while was also the primary installer for the Ubuntu distribution (although Ubuntu has now switched to a live-CD based installer as their primary installation software)