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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 ...
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]
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:
In 1992, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, recognized computer scientist and author of the Minix microkernel system, wrote a Usenet article on the newsgroup comp.os.minix with the title "Linux is obsolete", [41] which marked the beginning of a famous debate about the structure of the then-recent Linux kernel. Among the most significant criticisms were that:
Michael Kerrisk is a technical author, programmer and, since 2004, maintainer of the Linux man-pages project, [1] succeeding Andries Brouwer. [2] He was born in 1961 in New Zealand and lives in Munich, Germany. Kerrisk has worked for Digital Equipment, Google, The Linux Foundation [3] and, as an editor and writer, for LWN.net. [4]
Netflix reacted to critics of The Crown by adding a dramatization disclaimer to season 5, but at least one viewer wasn’t impressed by the decision: Princess Diana‘s biographer, Andrew Morton.
The criticism of Linux focuses on issues concerning use of operating systems which use the Linux kernel. While the Linux-based Android operating system dominates the smartphone market in many countries, [1] [2] and Linux is used on the New York Stock Exchange and most supercomputers, [3] it is used in few desktop and laptop computers. [4]