Kay Sievers
| Kay Sievers | |
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| Born | |
| 🏳️ 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][4] Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.[5] 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.[6]
Currently[update] employed by Red Hat, Inc.,[3] Sievers previously worked for Novell.[2][7]
Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany[8] and nowadays[when?] resides in Berlin, Germany.[9][better source needed]
References[edit]
- ↑ Sievers, Kay, udev 150, LWN.net, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lennart Poettering, "FAQs", systemd, 0pointer, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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
- ↑ "Red Hat". Unionpedia. 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Kay Sievers, Linux Plumbers Conference, archived from the original on 2014-02-03, retrieved 2012-10-08 Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Brockmeier, Joe, The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris [sic] into /usr, linuxfoundation.org, retrieved 2012-10-08
- ↑ 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 Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ vRfY.org Whois Record, retrieved 2012-10-08
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