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  2. Greg Kroah-Hartman - Wikipedia

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    Kroah-Hartman is a co-author of Linux Device Drivers (3rd Edition) [5] and author of Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, [6] and used to be a contributing editor for Linux Journal. He also contributes articles to LWN.net, the Linux news site. Kroah-Hartman frequently helps in the documentation of the kernel and driver development through talks [7] [8 ...

  3. History of free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (ADTI) announced its intent to publish a book, Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code, showing that the Linux kernel was based on code stolen from Unix, in essence using the argument that it was impossible to believe that Linus Torvalds could produce something as ...

  4. Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia

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    Linus Benedict Torvalds (/ ˈ l iː n ə s ˈ t ɔːr v ɔː l d z / ⓘ LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, [3] Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ⓘ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.

  5. Zed Shaw - Wikipedia

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    Zed A. Shaw is a software developer best known for creating the Learn Code the Hard Way series of programming tutorials, as well as for creating the Mongrel web server for Ruby web applications. [1]

  6. Patrick Volkerding - Wikipedia

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    Robert Bruce later became Volkerding's partner in Slackware Linux, Inc. with Volkerding owning a non-controlling, minority, 40% share. [16] Due to underpayment, Patrick Volkerding, "told them to take it down or I'd suspend the DNS for the Slackware store".

  7. GNU Core Utilities - Wikipedia

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    See the List of GNU Core Utilities commands for a brief description of included commands. Alternative implementation packages are available in the FOSS ecosystem, with a slightly different scope and focus (less functionality), or license. For example, BusyBox which is licensed under GPL-2.0-only, and Toybox which is licensed under 0BSD.

  8. Singularity (software) - Wikipedia

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    Singularity is a free and open-source computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization. [4]One of the main uses of Singularity is to bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing and the high-performance computing (HPC) world.

  9. Eric S. Raymond - Wikipedia

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    The essay was based in part on his experience in developing Fetchmail. He first presented his thesis at the annual Linux Kongress on May 27, 1997. He later expanded the essay into a book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, in 1999. The essay has been widely cited. [8]