Rusty Russell

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Rusty Russell

Rusty Russell speaking at linux.conf.au
Born Paul Russell
Nationality Australian
Occupation Computer programmer
Employer IBM[1]
Known for Linux kernel development, Free Software advocacy
Website
http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/

Paul "Rusty" Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate.

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[edit] Software development

Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel. [2] Linus Torvalds has referred to him as one of his "top deputies" [3] as of 2003. In 2002, Russell announced the creation of the Trivial Patch Monkey, an email address for kernel hackers to submit trivial patches such as spelling errors, one-liners, documentation tweaks and other minor amendments to the code base. Adrian Bunk took over the role in 2005. In 2006[4] Russell started work as the major developer of the "lguest" virtualisation system in the Linux Kernel. [5]

[edit] Australian Free Software community

Russell conceived and conducted the Conference of Australian Linux Users at Monash University in 1999, the forerunner of the annual linux.conf.au conference series.

Russell is intellectual property advisor to Linux Australia and is active in advocating against and critiquing intellectual property elements of the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States.[6] He was also a member of the Linux Australia committee in 2004 [7].

Russell was the recipient of the inaugural (and eponymous) Rusty Wrench award for service to the free software community at linux.conf.au 2005 [8].

[edit] Biography

Russell is separated from his wife Alli Russell. They have one daughter, born 2008.[9]

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