b. 1958, United States · Kernel developer, documentation maintainer, editor of LWN.net

Also known as: Corbet, jcorbet

Jonathan Corbet co-founded LWN.net (Linux Weekly News) in 1998. For more than 25 years LWN has been the kernel community's weekly news source, with thorough coverage of merge-window summaries, subsystem developments, and community debates.

He is also a Linux kernel developer who maintains the kernel documentation tree and co-authored Linux Device Drivers (O'Reilly).

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Related people: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds

Works cited in this book:

Linux Device Drivers (2005) (with Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman)

Discussed in:

Chapter 3: The Linux Kernel · How the Kernel Is Developed