Lennart Poettering
| Lennart Poettering | |
|---|---|
 Poettering in December 2012 |
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| Born | Guatemala City |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Employer | Red Hat |
| Known for | Avahi, PulseAudio, systemd |
| Website | |
| 0pointer.de/lennart | |
Lennart Poettering is a German computer programmer. He is best known for his work on free and open source software including PulseAudio, a sound server,[1] the systemd replacement for the System V init daemon,[2] and Avahi, an implementation of the zeroconf protocol for network device discovery.[3]
Life and career
Poettering was born in Guatemala City but grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Hamburg, Germany.[4] Poettering currently works for Red Hat.[5] Poettering is a long term contributor of the GNOME project,[6][7] a GNOME Foundation member [8] and a regular speaker at the GUADEC conference.
Since 2003, Poettering has worked in more than 40 software projects, mainly written in C and related to solution stacks in areas like multimedia, networking, telephony and system startup on Linux.[9] He is best known for his work on free and open source software including PulseAudio, a sound server,[1] the systemd replacement for the System V init daemon,[2] and Avahi, an implementation of the zeroconf protocol for network device discovery.[3] Poettering has advocated speeding up Linux development at the expense of breaking compatibility with BSD. "I don't think BSD is really too relevant anymore", he replied in an interview.[10]
Lennart Poettering is a hobbyist photographer with a special interest in travel pictures, usually taken during extended trips near the conferences where he is invited.[11] He has created a collection of more than a hundred stitched panoramas.[12]
References
- ^ a b "LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess". Lwn.net. Archived from the original on 2009-10-18. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
- ^ a b Michael Larabel (2010-08-23). "An Update On The SystemD System & Session Manager". Phoronix. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
- ^ a b "Using Avahi The 'Right Way'", linux.conf.au 2007
- ^ linux.conf.au profile
- ^ 2011 FOSDEM interview
- ^ "glib main loop".
- ^ "GNOME 3.0 Is Out!".
- ^ "GNOME Foundation Members". Retrieved 2013-01-26.
- ^ http://0pointer.de/lennart/, retrieved 2013-01-26 Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^ "Un entretien avec Lennart Poettering)". Retrieved 2013-01-26.
- ^ http://0pointer.de/photos/
- ^ http://0pointer.de/static/panoramas.cgi