Andrew Morton - Definition and Overview

Andrew Morton is a Linux kernel developer. He became the maintainer of the 2.6 kernel after Linus Torvalds released the first stable version on December 17, 2003. He is employed by OSDL, along with Torvalds.

Morton is one of the top echelon Linux developers who rejected the use of BitKeeper, which is proprietary software.

Andrew Morton delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium.

This article is not about Andrew Morton, biographer of princess Diana.

External links

• Andrew Morton's homepage (http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/)
• Interview: Andrew Morton (http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/10); Jeremy Andrews; Kerneltrap; February 14, 2002.
• Interview (http://www.linuxworld.com.au/pp.php?id=1546887162&taxid=24); Nadia Cameron; LinuxWorld; July 16, 2003.
• Keynote speech; Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2004 (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040802115731932)