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Kay Sievers | |
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| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Known for | udev,systemd,Gummiboot |
Kay Sievers is a Germancomputer programmer, best known for developing theudev device manager ofLinux,[1]systemd[2] and theGummibootEFI bootloader.[3]
Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.[4]In 2012, together withHarald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behindFedora's merging of the/lib,/bin and/sbin file-system trees into/usr, a simplification which otherdistributions such asArch Linux have since adopted.[5]
In April 2014,Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal withbugs that causedsystemd to negatively interact with the kernel.[6][7]
Kay Sievers worked forRed Hat, Inc. until 2019.[3] Sievers previously worked forNovell.[2][8]
Kay Sievers grew up inEast Germany[9] and nowadays[when?] resides inBerlin, Germany.[10][failed verification]
