KernelTrap: Interview: [The Gelato Project’s] Peter Chubb

[ Thanks to Jeremy Andrews for this
link. ]

“KernelTrap has spoken with Peter Chubb who currently works for
the Gelato Project. His efforts are presently focused on supporting
large disks and partitions, utilizing 64-bits. Regarding the
project’s focus of improving Linux support for the Itanium 64-bit
processor, Peter says, “Back in the days when the VAX was king,
there was a general assumption amongst some programmers that ‘all
the world’s a vax’. In the Linux world, there’s a similar
assumption: ‘all the world’s a pentium’.

“Peter lives in New South Wales, Australia, with his wife, Lucy,
also a kernel hacker, and two daughters. He earned a PhD under the
late John Lions, author of the Lions Book. His UNIX kernel hacking
experience is with an impressively large number of kernels…”

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