7-690: Andrew Morton may refer to: Andrew Morton (computer programmer) (born 1959), Linux kernel programmer/coordinator Andrew Morton (painter) (1802–1845), English portrait artist Andrew Morton (writer) (born 1953), biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, amongst others Andy Morton , Australian rugby league footballer for North Sydney Bears Andrew Morton (1812–1881), pioneering doctor and coroner of Weetangera, Australian Capital Territory See also [ edit ] Andrew Marton (1904–1992), Hungarian-American film director, producer and editor [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
14-504: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Andrew Morton (computer programmer) Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959) is an Australian software engineer . He is one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel , and a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system, the journaling layer for block devices (JBD) and memory management. In
21-416: The mm tree , which contains work-in-progress patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by Linus Torvalds . "mm" as a primary testing ground became unmanageably large and busy, and in 2008 the "linux-next" tree was created to fill much of this role. In 2001, Morton and his family moved from Wollongong, New South Wales to Palo Alto, California . In July 2003, he joined
28-546: The Open Source Development Labs under an agreement with his then-employer Digeo Inc. (makers of the Moxi home entertainment media center), in which OSDL supported Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continued in his official role as principal engineer at Digeo. Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by Google and continues his current work in maintaining the kernel. Morton delivered
35-638: The keynote speech at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium. He was also a featured speaker at MontaVista Software's Vision 2007 Conference. He was an expert witness in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit contesting UNIX copyrights. Morton is also known by his username akpm , as found in e-mail addresses and as part of the URL to his now-defunct webpage. On being asked what the initials KP stood for, he replied, "Some say 'Kernel Programmer.' My parents said 'Keith Paul.'" MontaVista Too Many Requests If you report this error to
42-631: The late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, Australia that produced a kit computer called the Applix 1616 , as well as a hardware engineer for the now-defunct Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Morton maintains a Linux kernel patchset known as
49-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Morton&oldid=869192181 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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