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{{short description|Australian software engineer (born 1959)}}
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| employer = [[Google]]
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| spouse = Kathryn Morton
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'''Andrew Keith Paul Morton''' (born 1959) is an Australian [[Software engineering|software engineer]]. He is one of the lead developers of the [[Linux kernel]], and a co-maintainer of the [[Ext3]] file system, the [[journaling file system|journaling]] layer for [[block device]]s (JBD) and memory management.
==Biography==
In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in [[Sydney, Australia]] that produced a kit computer called the [[Applix 1616]], as well as a hardware engineer for the
Morton maintains a Linux kernel patchset known as the [[mm tree|''mm'' tree]], which contains work-in-progress patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by [[Linus Torvalds]]. "mm" as a primary testing ground became unmanageably large and busy, and in 2008 the "linux-next" tree was created to fill much of this role.
▲In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in [[Sydney, Australia]] that produced a kit computer called the [[Applix 1616]], as well as a hardware engineer for the (now-defunct) Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an [[Honours_degree#Honours_degrees_and_academic_distinctions|honours degree]] in [[electrical engineering]] from the [[University of New South Wales]] in Australia.
In 2001, Morton and his family moved from [[Wollongong, New South Wales]] to [[Palo Alto, California]].{{fact|date=June 2024}} In July 2003,
Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by [[Google]]
▲In July 2003, Morton joined the [[OSDL|Open Source Development Labs]] under an agreement with his then-employer Digeo Inc. (makers of the [[Moxi]] home entertainment media center), in which OSDL supported Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continued in his official role as principal engineer at Digeo <ref>[http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5459090567.html linuxdevices.com - OSDL adds Andrew Morton, Linux kernel maintainer, to its resources]</ref>.
▲Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by [[Google]] but will continue his current work in maintaining the kernel. <ref>[http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/6/16 Linux kernel mailing list], August 6, 2006</ref> <ref>[http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2006080303126NWCYKN Linux Today], August 3, 2006</ref>
▲Andrew Morton delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium. He is also a featured speaker at [[MontaVista]] Software's Vision 2007 Conference. <ref>[http://www.mvista.com/vision/index.html MontaVista VISION 2007 Embedded Linux Developers Conference<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
▲Andrew is also known by his username ''akpm'', as found in e-mail addresses and as part of the URL to his webpage. On being asked what the initials KP stood for, he replied, "Some say 'Kernel Programmer.' My parents said 'Keith Paul.'"<ref>[http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/459 LKML: Andrew Morton: Re: Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partition rescan)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
== References ==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070623084631/http://kerneltrap.org/node/10 Interview: Andrew Morton]; Jeremy Andrews; Kerneltrap; February 14, 2002.
*[http://www.linuxworld.com.au/pp.php?id=1546887162&taxid=24 Interview]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; Nadia Cameron; LinuxWorld; July 16, 2003.
*[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040802115731932 Keynote speech; Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2004]
*[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39267255,00.htm Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725121632/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39267255,00.htm |date=25 July 2008 }}; Ingrid Marson; ZDNet UK; May
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081014010004/http://www.fosdem.org/2007/interview/andrew
*[http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail594.html Audio of Talk at SDForum]
*[http://www.linux-magazin.de/news/video_andrew_morton_im_interview Video with Andrew Morton at Hannover Industry Trade Fair, Germany, May 2008]
*[http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/ Link to his patches]
*[http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ Link to his own kernel tree]{{dead link|date=April 2016}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080504002242/http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/ Archive of his now-defunct webpage], hosted by [[Internet Archive]]
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