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Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman
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b. 1969, United States · Linux Foundation Fellow; maintainer of the stable kernel branch

Also known as: Kroah-Hartman, gregkh, GKH

Greg Kroah-Hartman has been a Linux kernel developer since the late 1990s and is the long-running maintainer of the kernel's stable and long-term-support branches — the trees that distributions actually ship. He has maintained the USB, driver-core, and staging subsystems, and authored Linux Kernel in a Nutshell. He is a Linux Foundation Fellow paid to work on the kernel full-time.

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Related people: Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Lennart Poettering

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