Rusty Russell

Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel.{{cite web

|url = http://kerneltrap.org/node/892

|title = Interview: Rusty Russell

|author = Jeremy Andrews

|publisher = KernelTrap

|date = 2003-09-23

|access-date = 2007-05-07

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120511120529/http://kerneltrap.org/node/892

|archive-date = 11 May 2012

|df = dmy-all

}} Linus Torvalds referred to him as one of his "top deputies" in 2003.{{cite web

|url = http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082-1023765.html

|title = Torvalds: What, me worry?

|author = Stephen Shankland

|publisher = News.com

|date = 2003-07-08

|access-date = 2007-05-07

|url-status = bot: unknown

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110616023253/http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082-1023765.html

|archive-date = 16 June 2011

|df = dmy-all

}}

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{{cite web

|url = http://lguest.ozlabs.org/patches/

|title = lguest patches repository

|author = Paul 'Rusty' Russell

|publisher = Ozlabs

|access-date = 2007-10-28

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071012102711/http://lguest.ozlabs.org/patches/

|archive-date = 12 October 2007

|df = dmy-all

}} Russell started work as the major developer of the "lguest" virtualisation system in the Linux Kernel.{{cite web

|url=http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;765093780;fp;16;fpid;1

|title=lguest: Spartan virtualization for Linux

|author=Jonathan Corbet

|publisher=IDG Communications

|date=2007-02-02

|access-date=2007-12-17}} In October 2009, he was officially given a SAMBA Team T-shirt welcoming him to the Samba Team.{{cite web

|url=http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2009-10-23.html

|title=SAMBA Coding and a Little Kernel

|author=Paul 'Rusty' Russell

|publisher=Ozlabs

|access-date=2009-10-27

}} In 2014 he started pettycoin, a cryptocurrency project.{{cite web|url=https://github.com/rustyrussell/pettycoin|title=rustyrussell/pettycoin|work=GitHub}}{{cite web|url=http://pettycoin.org/|title=pettycoin.org - losing tiny amounts of money at scale|work=pettycoin.org}}

Rusty Russell authored the majority part of Bitcoin's Lightning Network protocol specification.{{cite web | url=https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc | title=Lightning Network In-Progress Specifications | website=GitHub | date=17 May 2022 }}

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Russell conceived and conducted the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070218023317/http://www.linux.org.au/conf/1999/ 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.{{cite web

|url=http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/futuretech/soa/Kimberlee_Weatherall_and_Rusty_Russell_talk_IP/0,339028285,339273341,00.htm

|title=Talking IP with Kimberlee Weatherall and Rusty Russell

|author=Chris Duckett

|publisher=Builder.au

|date=2007-01-31

|access-date=2007-05-07

}} He was also a member of the Linux Australia committee in 2004.{{cite web

|url=http://www.linux.org.au/About/Committee

|title=Linux Australia Committee

|publisher=Linux Australia

|access-date=2007-05-07

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070603020446/http://www.linux.org.au/About/Committee |archive-date = 2007-06-03}}

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

|url=http://linux.org.au/awards.php

|title=Linux Australia Awards

|publisher=Linux Australia

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820125200/http://linux.org.au/awards.php

|archive-date=2006-08-20

}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.2.pdf |title=Filesystem Hierarchy Standard — Version 2.2 final Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Group |editor1-first=Rusty |editor1-last=Russell |editor1-link=Rusty Russell |editor2-first=Daniel |editor2-last=Quinlan |work=Filesystem Hierarchy Standard |date=23 May 2001 |access-date=18 October 2012}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.pdf |title=Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Group |editor1-first=Rusty |editor1-last=Russell |editor1-link=Rusty Russell |editor2-first=Daniel |editor2-last=Quinlan |editor3-first=Christopher |editor3-last=Yeoh |work=Filesystem Hierarchy Standard |date=28 January 2004 |access-date=18 October 2012}}

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/09/Rusty_Russell_Interview.pdf "Popping Kernels", Interview in Linux Magazine (UK), 2001]
• [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8723 Trivial Patch Monkey explained in Linux Journal, 2006]

• [https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/ Rusty's Linux Kernel Page]
• [http://rusty.ozlabs.org/ Rusty Russell's blog]

• [http://rustyrussell.github.io/pettycoin/ Pettycoin] project
• [https://twitter.com/rusty_twit Twitter] profile

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