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Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959) is an Australian software engineer. He is one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel , and a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system, the journaling layer for block devices (JBD) and memory management.
Among Linux kernel developers, the -mm tree refers to a version of the kernel source code maintained by Andrew Morton. The -mm kernel tree used to fill the role of Linux kernel development builds, formerly identified by odd version numbers following "2.6." (see this section [broken anchor] on Linux kernel version numbering). New and ...
It ran a custom multitasking multiuser operating system that was resident in ROM. A version of Minix was also ported to the 1616, as was the MGR Window System. Andrew Morton, designer of the 1616 and one of the founders of Applix, later became the maintainer of the 2.6 version of the Linux kernel.
In September 2011, the project was presented at the Linux Plumbers Conference. [4] In general, most of the attendees took a positive view of the project, which is proven by the fact that a number of kernel patches required for implementing the project were included in the mainline kernel. Andrew Morton, however, was a bit skeptical:
For example, quilt is heavily used by the maintainers of the Linux kernel. [2] Quilt evolved from a set of patch-management scripts originally written by Linux kernel developer Andrew Morton, [3] and was developed by Andreas Grünbacher for maintaining Linux kernel customizations for SuSE Linux. [4]
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Andrew Morton may refer to: Andrew Morton (computer programmer) (born 1959), Linux kernel programmer/coordinator; Andrew Morton (painter) (1802–1845), English portrait artist; Andrew Morton (writer) (born 1953), biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, amongst others; Andy Morton, Australian rugby league footballer for ...
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