Peter Anvin | |
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Born | January 12, 1972 Västerås, Sweden |
Residence | San Jose, California[1] |
Nationality | Swedish |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Employer | Intel Corporation |
Known for | SYSLINUX,[1][2][3] Linux kernel |
Spouse | Suzi Anvin, née Susan Elizabeth Esser |
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H. Peter Anvin's nonexistent home page |
Hans Peter Anvin, known as H. Peter Anvin, or simply Peter Anvin, or even hpa, is a Swedish computer programmer who has distinguished himself by his contributions to Free and open source software projects. He is the originator of SYSLINUX,[1][2][3] klibc, Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA), various Linux kernel hacks[1] such as:
Anvin was previously maintainer of the linux.* Usenet newsgroup hierarchy[1] and the Linux kernel archives at kernel.org, wrote the original Swap Space How-to, and the "Linux/I386 Boot Protocol" (file: linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt)
Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 from Northwestern University,[5] where he also was president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX); his amateur radio call sign is AD6QZ (formerly N9ITP).
In addition to his regular employment at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, Anvin is currently co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree, chief maintainer of the Netwide Assembler (NASM).[3] Previous employers include Transmeta, where he performed as architect and technical director; Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software; and rPath.
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