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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 7, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 27
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
OSDL And Linux Kernel Maintainer
Join Forces
OSDL, a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to
accelerating the adoption of Linux, announced that Linux kernel maintainer
Andrew Morton has joined forces with the lab and will be focused exclusively
on the 2.6 kernel during its maintenance cycle.
Under terms of the agreement between Digeo and OSDL, OSDL will support
Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continues in his official role
as principal engineer at Digeo, Inc. Digeo is a leading provider of media
center products and interactive television services. The sponsorship frees
Morton to dedicate himself to his new role as the lead maintainer of the Linux
production kernel while Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, maintains the
development kernel.
"It's great that both Andrew and I can work full-time on Linux through
OSDL.
Now the maintainers of both the development kernel and the stable kernel have
the support of a vendor-neutral organization committed to advancing Linux,"
said Torvalds, the creator of Linux.
"With deep roots in the Linux development community and the backing of the
industry's leaders, OSDL is in the best position to support the work of
exceptional engineers like Andrew," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "This will
allow OSDL to become a leading contributor to the Linux development community
as well giving us a great technical resource for accelerating the use of
Linux."
"I'm pleased and honored to have the support of OSDL for the work we do on
Linux," Morton said. "I look forward to dedicating full time to working with
all of the contributors, projects and companies that make Linux strong."
As lead maintainer of the Linux production kernel, Morton works closely
with
Torvalds, the various kernel subsystem maintainers, Linux distributions,
hardware vendors and other key parties to ensure that the production kernel
meets their needs. Morton is responsible for ensuring that the production
kernel is stable and offers good performance. He is the final arbiter over
technical and business issues for the inclusion of patches into the production
kernel.
Morton has 20 years of development and engineering management experience.
Currently principal engineer at Digeo, Morton is a senior architect in the
company's Linux efforts, a key software component of its soon to be released
Moxi Media Center.
"For Digeo and OSDL this is a win-win situation," said Mark Himelstein,
Senior
vice president of Software at Digeo. "Digeo is using Linux to drive next
generation media centers for the home. Andrew's participation ensures Digeo
and the community a high quality release we can rely on." Morton was
previously a software engineer and product development manager at Nortel
Networks. Prior to that, he was managing director of an Australia-based
personal computing company. He holds an honors degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of New South Wales.
About OSDL
OSDL -- home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux -- is dedicated to
accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Founded in
2000 and supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, OSDL is a
non-profit organization that provides state-of the-art computing and test
facilities in the United States and Japan available to developers around the
world. OSDL sponsors include Alcatel, Cisco, Computer Associates, Dell,
Ericsson, Force Computers, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Linuxcare,
Miracle Linux Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric, MontaVista Software, NEC
Corporation, Nokia, Red Hat, SuSE, TimeSys, Toshiba, Transmeta Corporation and
VA Software. Visit OSDL on the Web at www.osdl.org.
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