Lennart Poettering

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Lennart Poettering (2012)

Lennart Poettering (* 15. October 1980 in Guatemala City ) is a German Free Software - developer , known for the design of PulseAudio - cross-platform -Sound- middleware , systemd , a replacement for the System V init daemon , and the Avahi - zeroconf implementation.

Life

Lennart Poettering was born in Guatemala City in 1980 and grew up in Rio de Janeiro . When he was 12 years old, the family moved to Hamburg . Poettering studied computer science at the University of Hamburg .

job

Lennart Poettering is currently employed by Red Hat and primarily works on technologies for the Linux desktop. Poettering is the initiator, developer and maintainer of several free software projects; In 2004 he started developing PulseAudio as a cross-platform sound middleware , around 2005 with Avahi and 2010 with systemd . Poettering is known, even before controversial not to shy design decisions, for example, in 2011 he defended the Inkompatibelwerden of Linux with BSD - operating systems by systemd. At GUADEC 2012, a Gnome developer conference, he also advocated standardizing the Linux desktop by abandoning distribution-specific solutions.

In January 2014 Poettering presented Kdbus, an implementation of the D-Bus protocol at the Linux kernel level.

Awards

  • 2017: Pwnie Award for "Lamest Vendor Response"

Web links

Commons : Lennart Poettering  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess . Lwn.net. Archived from the original on October 18, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2009.
  2. ↑ Lennart Poettering: FAQs . In: systemd . 0pointer. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Using Avahi The 'Right Way'" (PDF; 290 kB), linux.conf.au 2007
  4. ↑ a b CV of Lennart Poettering ( memento from August 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 23, 2015 (English)
  5. ↑ FOSDEM interview
  6. ↑ Patrick G .: Retourner au contenu associé (dépêche: Un entretien avec Lennart Poettering) ( English ) linuxfr.org. July 5, 2011. Retrieved on August 29, 2012: “ LinuxFr.org: Perhaps Debian will be unable to switch to systemd due to the necessity to support the alternative Debian GNU / kFreeBSD system. What do you think about this situation? Lennart: Well, it's a loss for them, I guess. Debian kFreeBSD is a toy OS, people really shouldn't misunderstand that. "
  7. ↑ Andreas Proschofsky: GNOMEOS: "Let's develop a good operating system - not 15" . The standard . July 27, 2012. Accessed on August 29, 2012: “ Developer Lennart Poettering calls for the abandonment of distribution-specific solutions and for an increased focus on GNOME / Linux desktop development. "
  8. ↑ http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/20656/kernel-d-bus-nnahm-neuen-anlauf.html
  9. ↑ https://lwn.net/Articles/580194/
  10. ↑ heise Security: Pwnie Awards: Hacker Oscar for German Whitehat hacker FX. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Poettering, Lennart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German software developer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Guatemala City