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Kay Sievers | |
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Nationality | German |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Known for | udev, systemd, Gummiboot |
Kay Sievers is a German
computer programmer, best known for developing the
udev device manager of
Linux,
[1]
systemd
[2] and the
Gummiboot
EFI bootloader.
[3] Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.
[4]
In 2012, together with
Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind
Fedora's merging of the /lib
, /bin
and /sbin
file-system trees into /usr
, a simplification which other
distributions such as
Arch Linux have since adopted.
[5]
In April 2014, Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal with bugs that caused systemd to negatively interact with the kernel. [6]
Kay Sievers worked for Red Hat, Inc. until 2019, [3] Sievers previously worked for Novell. [2] [7]
Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany [8] and nowadays[ when?] resides in Berlin, Germany. [9][ failed verification]
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
notability guideline for biographies. (July 2017) |
This article cites Wikipedia (or sources that take information from Wikipedia), in a
circular manner. (September 2021) |
Kay Sievers | |
---|---|
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Known for | udev, systemd, Gummiboot |
Kay Sievers is a German
computer programmer, best known for developing the
udev device manager of
Linux,
[1]
systemd
[2] and the
Gummiboot
EFI bootloader.
[3] Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.
[4]
In 2012, together with
Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind
Fedora's merging of the /lib
, /bin
and /sbin
file-system trees into /usr
, a simplification which other
distributions such as
Arch Linux have since adopted.
[5]
In April 2014, Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal with bugs that caused systemd to negatively interact with the kernel. [6]
Kay Sievers worked for Red Hat, Inc. until 2019, [3] Sievers previously worked for Novell. [2] [7]
Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany [8] and nowadays[ when?] resides in Berlin, Germany. [9][ failed verification]