Keepers of the Kernel

Linux's inner circle - by home base, day job, and chief responsibility.

Greg Knauss

Wired

October 2001

Linus TorvaldsSan Jose, California
Software engineer, Transmeta
Core kernel functionality, approval over everything

Alan Cox
Swansea, Wales
Kernel hacker, Red Hat
Entire 2.2 release

Rik van Riel
Curitiba, Brazil
Kernel developer, Conectiva
Memory management

Ingo Molnar
Berlin, Germany
Systems engineer, Red Hat
SMP, x86 low-level code, RAID, TUX, core

Jeff Garzik
Atlanta, Georgia
Kernel hacker, MandrakeSoft
Network drivers, PCI, PCMCIA, Kernel Janitors Project

Jes Sorensen
Ottawa, Canada
Principal consultant, Wild Open Source
68000 port, device drivers

Alexey Kuznetsov
Moscow, Russia
Chief software engineer, SWsoft
Networking

Paul Mackerras
Canberra, Australia
Senior technical staff member, IBM Linux Technology Center
PowerPC port, PPP

Donald Becker
Annapolis, Maryland
CTO, Scyld Computing
Network drivers

Alexander Viro
Durham, North Carolina
Senior engineer, Red Hat
VFS and file systems

Andrea Arcangeli
Imola, Italy
Kernel developer, SuSE
Memory management, I/O subsystem, x86-64 and Alpha port

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Curitiba, Brazil
CTO, Conectiva
Kernel Janitors Project; IPX, 802.2, and NetBEUI stacks

Theodore Ts'o
Medford, Massachuetts
Principal engineer, VA Linux Systems
Serial driver, random driver, ext2 and ext3 file systems

David S. Miller
Mountain View, California
Kernel engineer, Red Hat
Networking, Sparc port

Stephen C. Tweedie
Edinburgh, Scotland
Kernel hacker, Red Hat
Virtual memory, ext2 and ext3 file systems

Rusty Russell
Canberra, Australia
Independent consultant
Packet filtering and mangling