Kay Sievers
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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]
References
[edit]- ^ Sievers, Kay, udev 150, LWN.net, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ^ a b Lennart Poettering, "FAQs", systemd, 0pointer, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ^ a b Fabian, Scherschel, Gummiboot is an EFI bootloader that "just works", The H, archived from the original on 7 December 2013, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ^ Kay Sievers, Linux Plumbers Conference, archived from the original on 2014-02-03, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ^ Brockmeier, Joe, The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris [sic] into /usr, linuxfoundation.org, retrieved 2022-10-05
- ^ Jon Gold (3 April 2014). "Linus Torvalds suspends key Linux developer: Kernel panic as Systemd dev pokes the bear". Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ Dynamic Device Handling on the Modern Desktop (PDF), retrieved 2012-10-08
- ^ Kay, Sievers, 25 years now since I left the awful East German dictatorship, archived from the original on 2012-12-17, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ^ vRfY.org Whois Record, retrieved 2012-10-08
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