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Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer. As of April 2013, he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O (with Hans J. Koch), and TTY layer. He also created linux-hotplug, the udev project, and the Linux Driver Project. He worked for Novell in the SUSE Labs division and, as of 1 February 2012, works at the Linux Foundation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Greg Kroah-Hartman is the 235th most popular computer scientist, the 17,257th most popular biography from United States and the 121st most popular American Computer Scientist.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is most famous for his work as a prominent Linux kernel developer, particularly for maintaining the stable branch of the Linux kernel. He is also known for his contributions to open-source software and advocacy for the Linux community.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Greg Kroah-Hartman ranks 235 out of 245. Before him are Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Shawn Fanning, Mihalis Yannakakis, Mark Overmars, Dariusz Jemielniak, and Jenova Chen. After him are Larry Ewing, Theodore Ts'o, Jeff Dean, Jon Lech Johansen, Rosalind Picard, and Andrej Karpathy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Greg Kroah-Hartman ranks 17,264 out of 20,380. Before him are Mizuo Peck (1977), Beth Littleford (1968), David Backes (1984), Leonard Roberts (1972), Jim Parrack (1981), and Doechii (1998). After him are Saxon Sharbino (1999), Geoff Stults (1977), Keith Tkachuk (1972), Evan Taubenfeld (1983), Jared Polis (1975), and Daniel Platzman (1986).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Greg Kroah-Hartman ranks 121. Before him are Eric Allman (1955), Nancy Lynch (1948), Douglas Crockford (1955), Steve Wilhite (1948), John Ousterhout (1954), and Shawn Fanning (1980). After him are Theodore Ts'o (1968), Jeff Dean (1968), Rosalind Picard (1962), Rich Skrenta (1967), Eric Bina (1964), and Jordan Hubbard (1963).

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