< Back to index
Hans Peter Anvin (born on 12 January 1972) is a computer programmer, Linux kernel hacker, and author and contributor of several other free software projects.
Biography
H. Peter Anvin was born in 1972 in Sweden, where he lived before moving to the United States. He studied at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. During his studies, he was an active radio amateur with call sign AD6QZ (formerly N9ITP), and president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX). In 1992, he became involved with Linux development.
In 2000, he married Susan Elizabeth Esser. They live in San Jose, California.
For many years, he was an engineer at Transmeta Corporation. In 1997, he convinced Linus Torvalds to move to California and accept a job at Transmeta.
Notable projects
* SYSLINUX - versatile suite of lightweight bootloaders
* klibc - minimalistic libc subset for use with initramfs
* LANANA - central registry of names and numbers used within Linux
* kernel.org - Linux kernel archives
* linux.* news hierarchy
* various kernel hacks, including:
* * UNIX98 ptys
* * CPUID and MSR drivers
* * parts of i386 boot sequence
* * autofs - kernel automounter
* * zisofs - transparent compression support for the ISO 9660 file system
* * RAID 6 support
He also contributed significantly to several other free software projects, notably NASM.
This entry uses material from from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Disclaimer.