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{{short description|Australian software engineer (born 1959)}}
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'''Andrew Keith Paul Morton''' (born 1959) is an
==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 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]] and continues his current work in maintaining the kernel.<ref>[https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/6/16 Linux kernel mailing list], August 6, 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2006080303126NWCYKN Linux Today] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220062048/https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2006080303126NWCYKN |date=20 February 2019 }}, August 3, 2006</ref>▼
▲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>{{cite web|url=http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5459090567.html |title=linuxdevices.com - OSDL adds Andrew Morton, Linux kernel maintainer, to its resources |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114151900/http://www.linuxdevices.com:80/news/NS5459090567.html |archivedate=2009-01-14 |df= }}</ref>
▲Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by [[Google]] and continues his current work in maintaining the kernel.<ref>[https://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 was 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 -->] {{wayback|url=http://www.mvista.com/vision/index.html |date=20120207023642 }}</ref>
▲Andrew is also known by his username ''akpm'', as found in e-mail addresses and as part of the URL to his now-defunct webpage. On being asked what the initials KP stood for, he replied, "Some say 'Kernel Programmer.' My parents said 'Keith Paul.'"<ref>[https://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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==External links==
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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 5, 2006.
*[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]
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