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Peter MacDonald (computer programmer)
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<p>Peter MacDonald is a <a href="/facts/Canadian/9y5ceYgk">Canadian</a> <a href="/facts/Software_engineer/79aIJhcy">software engineer</a>, best known as the creator of <a href="/facts/Softlanding_Linux_System/TLKm6MBK">Softlanding Linux System</a> (SLS), widely regarded as the first complete <a href="/facts/Linux_distribution/0vVl4N4f">Linux distribution</a>. Some of his work served as a foundation of <a href="/facts/Wine_(software)/JF0wHs7y">Wine</a>. He also created the <a href="/facts/Tcl/s7fbKYtR">Tcl</a> web browser BrowseX, and the PDQI suite of Tcl utilities. </p><p>Current projects include Jsish, an embeddable JavaScript interpreter with builtin type-checking. </p>