Andrew Morton
Programmer, Person
1959 –
Who is Andrew Morton?
Andrew Keith Paul Morton is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel. He is currently a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system and the journaling layer for block devices.
In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, Australia that produced a kit computer called the Applix 1616, as well as a hardware engineer for the Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Morton maintains a Linux kernel patchset known as the mm tree, which contains work-in-progress patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by Linus Torvalds. "mm" as a primary testing ground became unmanageably large and busy, and in 2008 the "linux-next" tree was created to fill much of this role.
In 2001, Andrew Morton and his family moved from Wollongong, New South Wales to Palo Alto, California.
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- Born
- 1959
England - Also known as
- 安德魯·莫頓
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Employment
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on July 23, 2013
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