KernelTrap: New udev Maintainer | Linux Today

KernelTrap: New udev Maintainer

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 19, 2005

“With the release of udev 070, Greg KH announced that Kay
Sievers is the new udev maintainer. ‘Kay has been instrumental in
getting udev feature complete and stable and actually working
well,’ he explained. ‘Without his help, it wouldn’t be the program
it is today. He also was the one who implemented the persistant
naming policy for disks, which is now in all of the major Linux
distributions (and a few minor ones.)’ Greg noted that he would
continue to be a part of the project, ‘I’ll still be around and
doing minor work on udev, but Kay is the one who is now in charge,
and I know it is in good hands…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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