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Morton Joins Torvalds at OSDL
Morton Joins Torvalds at OSDL
Jul. 2, 2003 05:42 PM
(July 2, 2003) - No sooner had OSDL announced, as they did last month, that the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, was now a full-time fellow at the Lab, than they apparently set about wooing his right-hand man, Andrew Morton - currently principal engineer for Digeo Inc. - into the fold.
Morton will be focused, OSDL says, on the 2.6 kernel during its maintenance cycle. Assuring the Linux community a high-quality kernel release is priority no. 1 for OSDL, since corporate adoption of Linux has to be premised on stability and robustness.
Typically it is Torvalds himself who takes charge of stabilizing the production kernel of Linux, before handing it over to someone else to maintain thereafter.
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