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Michael Kerrisk
Born	1961 New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealander
Education	BSc (hons) Computer Science, BA Psychology, University of Canterbury
Occupation(s)	Author and Programmer
Known for	The Linux Programming Interface, Linux man-pages project
Website	man7.org

Michael Kerrisk is a technical author, programmer and, since 2004, maintainer of the Linux man-pages project, succeeding Andries Brouwer. He was born in 1961 in New Zealand and lives in Munich, Germany.

Kerrisk has worked for Digital Equipment, Google, The Linux Foundation and, as an editor and writer, for LWN.net. Currently, he works as a freelance consultant and trainer.

He is best known for his book The Linux Programming Interface, published by No Starch Press in 2010. This book is widely regarded as the definitive work on Linux system programming and has been translated into several languages.

As the maintainer of the Linux man-pages project, Kerrisk has authored or co-authored about a third of the man pages and worked on improving the project's infrastructure. For his contributions he received a Special Award of the 2016 New Zealand Open Source Awards.

References

1. "The Linux man-pages project". kernel.org. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
2. "Maintaining Linux man-pages". kernel.org. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
3. "Michael Kerrisk - O'Reilly Media". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
4. "A goodbye note from Michael Kerrisk". LWN.net. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
5. "The Linux Programming Interface". man7.org. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
6. Kerrisk, Michael (2010). The Linux Programming Interface (1 ed.). No Starch Press. ISBN 978-1-59327-220-3.
7. Kerrisk, Michael (October 2010). Amazon's Readers Review. No Starch Press. ISBN 978-1593272203.
8. "Translations of 'The Linux Programming Interface'". man7.org. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
9. "Winners of the 2016 New Zealand Open Source Awards Announced". Retrieved 2016-11-12.

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Kernel	H. Peter Anvin Jens Axboe Andries Brouwer Rémy Card Alan Cox Matthew Garrett Michael Kerrisk Shuah Khan Con Kolivas Greg Kroah-Hartman Benson Leung Robert Love David S. Miller Ingo Molnár Andrew Morton Keith Packard Hans Reiser Rusty Russell Sage Sharp Linus Torvalds Theodore Ts'o Stephen Tweedie Sage Weil Harald Welte Chris Wright
GNU	Richard Stallman Michael Tiemann
Distributions	Solar Designer Gaël Duval Marc Ewing Benjamin Mako Hill Peter MacDonald Ian Murdock Daniel Robbins Jane Silber Mark Shuttleworth Patrick Volkerding Bob Young
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Advocates	Valerie Aurora Donna Benjamin Ken Coar Mary Gardiner Jon Hall Federico Heinz Bradley M. Kuhn Bruce Perens Eric S. Raymond
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