Kay Sievers
Kay Sievers is a German programmer and developer of free software in the Linux environment, who is known for the daemons udev for device management and systemd for the system start and for the UEFI bootloader Gummiboot. He also made significant contributions to the hotplug project (for plug and play ).
In 2012, Sievers and Harald Hoyer were the driving force behind the merging of the / lib , / bin and / sbin file system trees into / usr under Fedora . This simplification has been carried out by other distributions such as B. Arch Linux taken over.
Kay Sievers is employed by Red Hat and previously worked for Novell .
Individual evidence
- ↑ udev 150
- ↑ FAQs systemd
- ↑ Rubber boat is an EFI boot loader that "just works" ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kay Sievers ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Google+
- ↑ libgudev spec file ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Sievers, Kay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German software developer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |