Lennart Poettering
| Lennart Poettering | |
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Poettering in December 2012
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| Born |
October 15, 1980 Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Employer | Red Hat |
| Known for | Avahi, PulseAudio, systemd |
| Website | 0pointer |
Lennart Poettering (born October 15, 1980) is a German computer free software programmer known for his work on PulseAudio, a sound server,Avahi, an implementation of the zeroconf protocol for network device discovery, and systemd, an alternative to the System V init daemon.
Poettering was born in Guatemala City but grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Hamburg, Germany. Poettering currently works for Red Hat.
Since 2003, Poettering has worked in more than 40 software projects, mainly written in C. He is the initiator, developer and maintainer of several Free Software projects, which have been widely adopted in many Linux distributions, notably the sound middleware PulseAudio (started in 2004), the networking solution Avahi (started in 2005), and since 2010 the system startup system systemd.
Poettering is known for having controversial technical and architectural positions regarding the Linux ecosystem.
His style has brought him accusations that he is working against long-standing Unix philosophy, which he addressed in his blog post The Biggest Myths. For instance, Poettering has advocated speeding up Linux development at the expense of breaking compatibility with POSIX and other Unix-like operating systems such as the BSDs. He took this decision because of his experience in writing some other low-level components in the desktop stack. He invites others developers to do the same. Poettering recommends also reading The Linux Programming Interface but ignoring the POSIX-specific parts.
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