H. Peter Anvin

Hans Peter Anvin (born on 12 January 1972) is a computer programmer, Linux kernel hacker, and author and contributor of several other free software projects.

Biography

H. Peter Anvin was born in 1972 in Västerås, Sweden, where he lived before moving to the United States. He studied at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. During his studies, he was an active radio amateur with call sign AD6QZ (formerly N9ITP), and president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX). In 1992, he became involved with Linux development.

In 2000, he married Susan Elizabeth Esser. They live in San Jose, California.

For many years, he was an engineer at Transmeta Corporation. In 1997, he convinced Linus Torvalds to move to California and accept a job at Transmeta. Currently, H. Peter Anvin works for rPath, Inc.

Notable projects

* SYSLINUX − versatile suite of lightweight bootloaders
* klibc − minimalistic libc subset for use with initramfs
* LANANA − central registry of names and numbers used within Linux
* kernel.org − Linux kernel archives
* linux.* news hierarchy
* various kernel hacks, including:
** UNIX98 ptys
** CPUID and MSR drivers
** x86 boot sequence
** autofs − kernel automounter
** zisofs − transparent compression support for the ISO 9660 file system
** RAID 6 support
* maintainer of the x86 architecture for the Linux kernel
* chief maintainer of NASM

He has also contributed significantly to several other free software projects.

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