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Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux kernel developer

  • Fame50.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Developers rank#166
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  • Fame50.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Developers rank#166
  • Wikipedia4.7K
Born 1968 · age 58United States
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    Born 1968
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Updated 2026-06-11

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, 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.

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Source confidence75.0
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