Kay Sievers

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{{Infobox person

| name = Kay Sievers

| image = 20120929-DP4A6953.jpg

| nationality = German

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| known_for = udev, systemd, Gummiboot

| occupation = Software engineer

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Kay Sievers is a German computer programmer, best known for developing the udev device manager of Linux,{{citation |last= Sievers|first= Kay |title= udev 150 |url= https://lwn.net/Articles/369366/ |publisher= LWN.net |access-date= 2012-10-08}} systemd{{citation |url= http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html#faqs |publisher= 0pointer |work= systemd |title= FAQs |author= Lennart Poettering |access-date= 2012-10-08}} and the Gummiboot EFI bootloader.{{citation |last= Fabian |first= Scherschel |title= Gummiboot is an EFI bootloader that "just works" |url= http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Gummiboot-is-an-EFI-boot-loader-that-just-works-1628719.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131207074105/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Gummiboot-is-an-EFI-boot-loader-that-just-works-1628719.html|archive-date= 7 December 2013|publisher= The H |access-date= 2012-10-08}} Kay Sievers made major contributions to Linux's hardware hotplug and device management subsystems.{{citation |url= http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ocw/users/58 |title= Kay Sievers |publisher= Linux Plumbers Conference |access-date= 2012-10-08 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140203024520/http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ocw/users/58 |archive-date= 2014-02-03 |url-status= dead }}

In 2012, together with Harald Hoyer, Sievers was the main driving force behind Fedora's merging of the /lib, /bin and /sbin file-system trees into /usr, a simplification which other distributions such as Arch Linux have since adopted.{{citation |last= Brockmeier |first= Joe |title= The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris [sic] into /usr |url= https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/the-ever-changing-linux-filesystems-merging-directoris-into-usr |publisher= linuxfoundation.org |access-date= 2022-10-05}}

In April 2014, Linus Torvalds banned Sievers from submitting patches to the Linux kernel for failing to deal with bugs that caused systemd to negatively interact with the kernel.{{cite web |author=Jon Gold |title=Linus Torvalds suspends key Linux developer: Kernel panic as Systemd dev pokes the bear |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2175826/linus-torvalds-suspends-key-linux-developer.html |date=3 April 2014 |access-date=24 March 2019 |archive-date=24 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324195212/https://www.networkworld.com/article/2175826/linus-torvalds-suspends-key-linux-developer.html |url-status=dead}}

Kay Sievers worked for Red Hat, Inc. until 2019, Sievers previously worked for Novell.{{citation |title= Dynamic Device Handling on the Modern Desktop |url= https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-349-356.pdf |access-date= 2012-10-08}}

Kay Sievers grew up in East Germany{{citation|last= Kay |first= Sievers |title= 25 years now since I left the awful East German dictatorship |url= https://plus.google.com/108087225644395745666/posts/dctnZeFqTjA |archive-url= https://archive.today/20121217165307/https://plus.google.com/108087225644395745666/posts/dctnZeFqTjA |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2012-12-17 |access-date= 2012-10-08 }} and nowadays{{when|date=May 2019}} resides in Berlin, Germany.

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