Textbook of Linux

31 entries

People

C H I J K M P R S T V W Y

C

• Jonathan Corbet — Kernel developer, LWN.net executive editor, annual Kernel Report speaker
• Alan Cox — Early Linux kernel developer; networking subsystem maintainer

H

• Jon "maddog" Hall — Linux advocate; long-time executive director of Linux International
• Junio Hamano — Maintainer of Git since 2005
• Richard Hipp — Creator of SQLite, the world's most widely deployed database
• Solomon Hykes — Creator of Docker

I

• Miguel de Icaza — Co-founder of the GNOME project and of Ximian/Novell's Mono

J

• Bill Joy — Principal architect of BSD Unix, author of vi and csh, co-founder of Sun

K

• Brian Kernighan — Bell Labs researcher, co-author of K&R, creator of AWK and AMPL
• Greg Kroah-Hartman — Linux kernel developer and maintainer of the long-term stable branch

M

• Douglas McIlroy — Inventor of Unix pipes; long-time head of the Bell Labs CS research department
• Bram Moolenaar — Creator and long-time maintainer of Vim
• Ian Murdock — Founder of the Debian project

P

• Rob Pike — Unix and Plan 9 researcher; co-creator of UTF-8 and Go
• Lennart Poettering — Creator of systemd, PulseAudio, and Avahi

R

• Theo de Raadt — Founder of OpenBSD and OpenSSH
• Eric Raymond — Author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"; open-source movement essayist
• Dennis Ritchie — Co-creator of Unix and creator of the C programming language
• Guido van Rossum — Creator of Python

S

• Mark Shuttleworth — Founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu Linux distribution
• Richard Stallman — Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation
• Daniel Stenberg — Creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl

T

• Andrew Tanenbaum — Creator of Minix; author of influential OS textbooks
• Ken Thompson — Co-creator of Unix and the B programming language
• Linus Torvalds — Creator of the Linux kernel and Git
• Andrew Tridgell — Creator of Samba and rsync
• Theodore Ts'o — Maintainer of the ext2/3/4 filesystem and long-time kernel developer

V

• Paul Vixie — Author of BIND; central figure in DNS standards and operations
• Patrick Volkerding — Founder and benevolent dictator of Slackware, the oldest active Linux distribution

W

• Larry Wall — Creator of Perl

Y

• Tatu Ylönen — Creator of SSH