linux_who_is_who.txt

# Who-is-Who: [[{PM.who_is_who,PM.WiP]]


(Forcibly incomplete but still quite pertinent list of core people and companies)
- Linus Torvalds:
  - He loves C++ and Microkernels, author of a Unix like
    hobbie project for x86. Nothing serious.
    - <http://www.linux-schule.net/linux/text34.html>
    - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds>
- Alan Cox:
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox>
- Ingo Molnár:
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Moln%C3%A1r>
  - Completely Fair Scheduler
  - in-kernel TUX HTTP / FTP server.
  - thread handling enhancements
  - real-time preemption patch set
    (with Thomas Gleixner and others)
- Moshe Bar: Author on the "Linux Internals" book. (With Ingo Molnár
    scheduler).
  - Serial entrepreneur,  co-founder of Qumranet (sold to Red Hat),
    which created the industry standard KVM hypervisor, powering nearly
    all cloud offerings. He also co-founded software company XenSource,
    the makers of the Xen hypervisor (sold to Citrix).
    Previously regular columnist for Linux Journal, Byte.com, Dr.Dobbs.
    He started learning UNIX on a PDP-11 with AT&T UNIX Release 6 back
    in 1981.
    Today he works as CEO of https://www.codenotary.com.
    Moshe is at this time a board member of Tinaba SpA, Graylog Inc, 
    ePrice SpA, Quandoo AG, Cascade Partners LP and Optigrowth Sarl.
- Patrick Volkerding, creator of Slackware, the first Linux
  distribution.<br/>
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding>
- Marc Ewing, creator of Red Hat
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ewing>
- Robert Love:<br/>
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Love>
  Ximian, Linux Desktop Group, SuSe Novell, worked on GNOME,
  on 2007 joins Google to work on Android, engineered several
  kernel and system-level solutions like its novel shared memory
  subsystem, ashmem. From 2014 Love continues to work at Google
  as Director of Engineering for Search Infrastructure.
- Andries Brouwer
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_Brouwer#Linux_kernel>
- Bredan D.Gregg: Author of many great books and posts on
  Linux observability and monitoring <br/>
  <http://www.brendangregg.com/>
- Rusty Russell:<br/>
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell>
  work on the Linux kernel's succesful networking subsystem
  (netfilter, iptables) and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
- Sebastien Godard (http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/),
  author of the systat utilities for linux.
- Many, many others, ...
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