H. Peter Anvin | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Anvin speaking atFOSDEM in 2009 | |
| Born | Hans Peter Anvin (1972-01-12)12 January 1972 (age 53) Västerås, Sweden |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Employer | Intel Corporation |
| Known for | SYSLINUX,[1][2][3]Linux kernel |
| Website | www |
Hans Peter Anvin (born 12 January 1972), also known ashpa, is a Swedish-American computer programmer who has contributed tofree and open-source software projects. Anvin is the originator ofSYSLINUX,[1][2][3]Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA), and variousLinux kernel features.[1]
Peter Anvin grew up inVästerås,Sweden. He moved to theUnited States in 1988, as a teenager, when his father moved toChicago.[4]
Anvin was previously maintainer of thelinux.*Usenet newsgroup hierarchy[1] and the Linux kernel archives at kernel.org, wrote the originalSwap SpaceHow-to, and the "Linux/I386 Boot Protocol" (file: linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt)
Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 fromNorthwestern University,[5] where he also was president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX); hisamateur radio call sign is AD6QZ (formerly N9ITP). According to his personal web site, he is a believer in theBaháʼí Faith.[6]
In addition to his regular employment at Intel'sOpen Source Technology Center, Anvin was a long-time co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree,[7] chief maintainer of theNetwide Assembler (NASM) andSYSLINUX projects.[3]Previous employers includeTransmeta, where he performed as architect and technical director; Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software; andrPath.
Contributors to theLinux operating system | |
|---|---|
| Kernel |
|
| GNU | |
| Distributions | |
| Other developers | |
| Advocates | |
| Others | |
