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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] [7]
Kay Sievers worked for Red Hat, Inc. until 2019. [3] Sievers previously worked for Novell. [2] [8]
Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany [9] and nowadays[ when? ] resides in Berlin, Germany. [10] [ failed verification ]