I just asked @philip_sweany about this last week and he said it was the Appalachian Trail nickname for Tim Burke, one of the founders of RHEL and former (now retired) leader of RHEL engineering.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/teamwork-trail
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/goals-appalachian-trail
Going back to RHEL 8, if you're wondering how you get from "Larry Troan" to "ootpa", back when Eric Troan was Red Hat's first head engineer and working on Red Hat Linux, his account was "ewt". When his father joined Red Hat as a TAM and later as Engineering Partner Manager, well, he was "ewt's pa" => "ootpa". Larry was a great guy, and was a key factor in Red Hat's early successes.
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4