Kay Sievers is a German
computer programmer
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, best known for developing the
udev device manager of
Linux,
systemd and the
Gummiboot EFI bootloader.
Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.
In 2012, together with
Harald Hoyer
Harald Hoyer is a computer programmer and photographer, best known for developing the dracut initramfs generator and framework, the udev device manager of Linux, the systemd replacement for the System V init daemon and the Gummiboot EFI boot l ...
, Sievers was the main driving force behind
Fedora
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'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.
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.
employed by
Red Hat, Inc.,
Sievers previously worked for
Novell
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Under the le ...
.
Kay Sievers grew up in
East Germany and nowadays resides in
Berlin, Germany.
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References
Free software programmers
Living people
Linux people
German computer programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Red Hat employees
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