[Gllug] updating red hat

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Mon Oct 29 17:07:48 UTC 2001


On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:01:03PM -0000, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:
> > Ms. Lene Jensen wrote:
> >
> > Kernels are not written by Red Hat,
> > we cannot control what compilers they need (nor would we want to, we're
> > not after a monopoly after all).
> 
> I once heard a fact that 4 of the top 5 kernel developers work for Red Hat,
> is that true? (The obvious exception being Transmeta)

Alan Cox and Stephen Tweedie being the two most obvious. From a quick
grep of the Documentation directory, it looks like Ingo Molnar and
David S. Miller are also involved. Jakub Jelinek, who's credited with
chunks of the Sparc work is also a redhat soul.

How's that?

Cheers,

Simon

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