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Kay Sievers | |
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Nationality | German |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Known for | udev, systemd, Gummiboot |
Kay Sievers is a German computer programmer, best known for developing the udev device manager of Linux,[1] systemd[2] and the Gummiboot EFI bootloader.[3] Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.[4]
In 2012, together with Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind Fedora's merging of the /lib
, /bin
and /sbin
file-system trees into /usr
, a simplification which other distributions such as Arch Linux have since adopted.[5]
In April 2014, Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal with bugs that caused systemd to negatively interact with the kernel.[6]
Kay Sievers worked for Red Hat, Inc. until 2019,[3] Sievers previously worked for Novell.[2][7]
Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany[8] and nowadays[when?] resides in Berlin, Germany.[9][failed verification]