KernelTrap Interviews Andrea Arcangeli

An anonymous reader writes "Andrea Arcangeli completely rewrote the 2.4 Linux kernel virtual memory subsystem several years ago, a surprising event during the evolution of a stable kernel series. A very intelligent 27-year-old from Italy, Andrea spoke with KernelTrap in great detail about the past, present and future of his Linux kernel efforts. An interesting interview ."

Comments

Surprise

[gowen]

Linux hacker : Age 27 : lives with in parents house.

Who'd've thunk it, eh?

Re:Surprise

[nathanhart]

Hey the rents cheap, the foods free and only once or twice a day you have to answer one of their computer questions

Re:Surprise

[millahtime]

My bad. I didn't RTFA. So, that's a nice way of saying he is in the attic.

Re:Surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm Italian and today this is just a "prejudice" :)

Re:Surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, most italian men live with their parents until they get married.
Considering the fact that he spends his life re-writing kernels then I think he's going to be living at home until he's finished re-writing 2.8 as well.

Re:Surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

Judging from the code coming out of India, I'm guessing it's customary to marry your parents.

Re:Surprise

[gowen]

This is very, very common in Italy.

I know, they're called Mammoni ("mother's boys").

But it was a good line, and I couldn't resist...

Re:Surprise

[mpecatam]

"Actually, most italian men live with their parents until they get married."

Or even after they get married. The idea is to live in your parents house until you can live in your childrens house.

Re:Amazing considering no education above high sch

[wombatmobile]

It always amazes me when people, without formal education, can accomplish so much.

Yeah, mostly high achievers graduate from Yale and Harvard first and then distinguish themselves by serving their country selflessly before going on to make the world a better, safer place.

RTFA

[Nuclear Elephant]

Andrea spoke with KernelTrap in great detail about the past, present and future of his Linux kernel efforts.

Sorry, looks like she's a he. I was really hoping it would turn out to be a chick - chicks that can rewrite Linux components are extremely sexy.

Re:RTFA

[sfhc]

LOL. This reminds me of one time where I had to make a phone call to a new vendor where the contact name was Andrea. It was a software company, so we figured it was pretty cool that we got to talk to a woman that is at least somewhat tech-savvy. Me and the guys in the office spend the morning fantasizing about the 'hot' woman that we were about to talk to. How surprised we were when the male voice at the other end identified itself as Andrea! He was an Italian that had moved here to the states. Considering all the things that we had been saying about Andrea we all just about fell out of our chairs in disgust! Ya never know who's behind the name!

Re:RTFA

[matt-fu]

chicks that can rewrite Linux components are extremely sexy

Well, at least until they reject your request for a kernel modification because they "have a headache".

EEK!

[NicolaiBSD]

The parallel port was the device I knew best in the PC hardware because for the final exam at high school we developed an autorange (from a few millivolt to thousand of volts) digital oscilloscope (designing both hardware and software) and I was acquiring the data from the 8 bits output of the ADC using the parallel port in nibble mode with a multiplexer with x86 inline assembler in a C++ program.

If you understand this sentence you know you're a geek.

Re:EEK!

[Etyenne]

If you understand this sentence you know you're a geek.

Perfectly clear. Which part don't you understand ?

j/k

That Sheila's a he!

[RoloDMonkey]

Poor Andrea, now he is going to get slashdotted by a bunch of lonely geeks that didn't RTFA, and think that he is a she.

hm

[Anonymous Coward]

after reading that article i feel as though my programming skills are on par with a primate.