Community

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This page is for information about the embedded Linux and open source community.

People

This section lists inviduals who are "movers and shakers" in embedded Linux:

Linux kernel

Important kernel figures

  • Linus Torvalds - Linux kernel initiator and head maintainer
  • Andrew Morton - maintains an important secondary (staging) tree

Kernel arch maintainers

  • Russell King - ARM kernel maintainer
  • Paul Mundt - SH kernel maintainer
  • Ralph Baechle - MIPS kernel maintainer
  • Greg Ungerer - uCLinux kernel maintainer
  • Arnd Bergman - CELL kernel maintainer

Feature developers/maintainers

  • Andi Kleen - author of bloat-o-meter
  • Matt Mackall - originator of Linux-tiny patch set (author of SLOB allocator)
  • Ingo Molnar - author of RT-preempt patch set
  • Thomas Gleixner - author of clock events
  • David Woodhouse - MTD/jffs2 author?

Interview candidates

The following page has a list of people we'd like to interview for an elinux.org feature:

Communities for beginners

Linux User Groups

One way to get involved with a bunch of like-minded Linux enthusiasts is to participate in a local Linux users group. The following site has a good database of Linux users groups:

Development Model

Reasons for contributing to open source

Quality Assurance

Developers who contribute code to the Linux kernel agree to the Developer Certificate Of Origin by signing their code, with a "Signed Off By" line.