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'''Andrew Keith Paul Morton''' (born 1959) is an [[Australia]]n [[Software engineering|software engineer]], best known as one of the lead developers of the [[Linux kernel]]. He is currently a co-maintainer of the [[Ext3]] file system and the [[journaling file system|journaling]] layer for [[block device]]s (JBD).

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_degreeHonours degree#Honours_degrees_and_academic_distinctionsHonours degrees and academic distinctions|honours degree]] in [[electrical engineering]] from the [[University of New South Wales]] in Australia.

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.

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Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by [[Google]] and continues 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 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 -->]{{dead link|date=April 2014}}</ref>

He is an expert witness in the ''[[SCO v. IBM]]'' lawsuit contesting [[UNIX]] copyrights.<ref>[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060719122732946 Groklaw], July 19, 2006</ref>

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== References ==

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