Michael Kerrisk
Technical author and programmer
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Michael Kerrisk is a technical author, programmer and, since 2004, maintainer of the Linux man-pages project,[1] succeeding Andries Brouwer.[2] He was born in 1961 in New Zealand and lives in Munich, Germany.
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| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
| Education | BSc (hons) Computer Science, BA Psychology, University of Canterbury |
| Occupations | Author and Programmer |
| Known for | The Linux Programming Interface, Linux man-pages project |
| Website | man7 |
Kerrisk has worked for Digital Equipment, Google, the Linux Foundation[3] and, as an editor and writer, for LWN.net.[4] Currently,[when?] he works as a freelance consultant and trainer.
He is known for his book The Linux Programming Interface,[5] published by No Starch Press[6] in 2010. This book is widely regarded[citation needed] as the definitive work on Linux system programming and has been translated into several languages.[7]
As the maintainer of the Linux man-pages project, Kerrisk has authored or co-authored about a third of the man pages[citation needed] and worked on improving the project's infrastructure. For his contributions he received a Special Award of the 2016 New Zealand Open Source Awards.[8]
