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'''Andrew Keith Paul Morton''' (born 1959 in [[England]]) is an [[Australia|Australian]]n [[Software_engineeringSoftware engineering|software engineer]], best known as one of the lead developers of the [[Linux kernel]]. He currently maintains a patchset known as the [[mm tree|''mm'' tree]], which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by [[Linus Torvalds]].

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.

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In 2001, Andrew Morton and his family moved from [[Wollongong, New South Wales]] to [[Palo Alto, California]].

In July of 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>

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*[http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/ Link to his patches]

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