Kay Sievers

Kay Sievers
Nationality German
Occupation Software engineer
Employer Red Hat
Known for udev, systemd, Gummiboot

Kay Sievers is a computer programmer, best known for developing the udev device manager of Linux,[1] systemd[2] and the Gummiboot EFI boot loader.[3] Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.[4] However, in 2014 he was banned by Linus Torvalds from the Linux kernel, Torvalds claiming that he was creating bugs and not solving them.[5][6]

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 has since been adopted by other distributions such as Arch Linux.[7]

He is currently employed by Red Hat, Inc.[3] and previously has worked for Novell.[2][8]

Kay Sievers grew up in Eastern Germany[9] and nowadays resides in Berlin, Germany.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Sievers, Kay, udev 150, LWN.net, retrieved 2012-10-08
  2. 1 2 Lennart Poettering, "FAQs", systemd, 0pointer, retrieved 2012-10-08
  3. 1 2 Fabian, Scherschel, Gummiboot is an EFI boot loader that "just works", The H, archived from the original on 7 December 2013, retrieved 2012-10-08
  4. ↑ Kay Sievers, Linux Plumbers Conference, retrieved 2012-10-08
  5. ↑ https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/420
  6. ↑ https://www.linux.com/learn/understanding-and-using-systemd
  7. ↑ Brockmeier, Joe, The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris into /usr, linux.com, retrieved 2012-10-08
  8. ↑ Dynamic Device Handling on the Modern Desktop (PDF), retrieved 2012-10-08
  9. ↑ Kay, Sievers, 25 years now since I left the awful East German dictatorship, retrieved 2012-10-08
  10. ↑ vRfY.org Whois Record, retrieved 2012-10-08


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