The son of an IBM programmer, Marc Ewing attended computer camps as a child, and spent time learning to write programs for Apollo and Commodore computers.
[citation needed] Following his college education, Ewing began work as engineer at IBM.
[3] While at IBM, he spent substantial time customizing Linux workstation installations.
[4] At the height of the dot com bubble in 1999, Ewing briefly had a net worth of 900 million dollars.
[1] Ewing left Red Hat, and co-founded the mountaineering-focused Alpinist quarterly publication in 2002.