UKUUG Biographical details

Jos Vos is CEO and co-founder of X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV. He has 20+ years of experience in research, development and consulting (mostly relating to UNIX systems software), Internet, and security.

His operating system of choice since 1994 is Linux. In the Linux community he is best known for writing ipfwadm and part of the firewall code in the 2.0 kernel. Using RPM since 1996, he is known to nearly never install software with "RPM-ifying" it. He also participated in the design of RPM's trigger-sripts, later implemented by Red Hat.

His company X/OS delivers open, standards-based solutions and services. Products include support services for X/OS Linux (an enterprise-class Linux distribution), custom-built firewall/VPN appliances with embedded Linux and high-availability cluster solutions.