You are here: IT News and Top Technology » Developer World » Greg Kroah— Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow — Gives SUSE the Boot

Greg Kroah— Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow — Gives SUSE the Boot

Category: Developer World, Author: Ronan, Added: 1 February 2012
 
Greg Kroah— Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow —  Gives SUSE the Boot
From the 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' files:
Greg Kroah-Hartman is joining the Linux Foundation as a 'fellow.' The move means that he's leaving SUSE - that's right kaput, no more SUSE for him.
I've been a huge fan of Greg ever since I sat in a session he ran at LinuxWorld in 2006..you see while I had been aware of his work, I never had the opportunity to actually see him speak. I was impressed and amazed (and still am) at his attitude towards getting things done. I remember distinctly asking about some esoteric kernel bug and he simply said, if anyone has any security bugs send to me and i'll look at it and get it fixed.
This past year I watched in amazement as he released a stable Linux kernel in front of a live audience. That's where I see the name Greg Kroah-Hartman the most as THE maintainer of the stable Linux kernel. He's also the man that in recent years has been Linus Torvalds right hand - literally at Linuxcon events around the world having candid on stage discussions.
It makes sense that he should be part of the Linux Foundation and frankly, I really wonder why it has taken so long for this to happen. For SUSE, the loss is large in my opinion. The Tumbleweed effort, which brings a rolling kernel release is just one of the many contributions that he has led at SUSE. He was easily the most important kernel dev that SUSE ever had and without him, I really wonder what (if any) influence SUSE will still exert on kernel development.
Perhaps even more telling is the only public message (that I was able to find) that Greg posted about leaving SUSE. It's just a simple blog post titled,"Time to update your email address book"
sed -i 's/gregkh@suse.de/gregkh@linuxfoundation.org/g' .addressbook
Ok Greg, I've updated my address book. Good Luck at the Linux Foundation and congratulations on making the move.
   Comments: (0)    Views: 77   
 (Votes #: 10)

Related news:

See also:

Dear visitor, you went to the site as unregistered user.
We recommend you to register or enter the site under your name.

Comments to the news Greg Kroah— Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow — Gives SUSE the Boot:

Information

Members of Guest cannot leave comments.
Navigation
User Panel
Welcome Guest


If you are on the site for the first time, you can register!

Forgot your password?
Most popular
IT News
TOP 5 Software News
TOP 5 Hardware News
TOP 5 Network and Secutity
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites.
If you have any doubts about legality of content or you have another suspicions, feel free to contact us at feedback

Home |  IT News |  feedback |  Sitemap |  XML Sitemap |  DMCA Policy
© 2011, IT News & Gadgets. All Rights Reserved.
Designed — Rock Star