Robert Love

infobox person
name = Robert Love
birth_date = birth date and age|1981|9|25
birth_place = Florida, United States
education = BA Mathematics and BS Computer Science, University of Florida
occupation = Software Engineer

Robert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an American author, speaker, and open source software developer.

Love is best known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, with notable work including the preemptive kernel, process scheduler, kernel event layer, virtual memory subsystem, and inotify. Love is also active in the GNOME community, working on NetworkManager, GNOME Volume Manager, Project Utopia and Beagle.

Biography

Love was born on September 25, 1981 in south Florida. He attended the University of Florida, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2004.

From January, 2002 to December 15, 2003, while still in college, Love was a kernel hacker at MontaVista Software. At MontaVista, he worked on procps and several kernel-related projects, including one of his most notable, the preemptive kernel.

Love began work at Novell on December 15, 2003, where he first served as an engineer in the Linux desktop group. [ [http://blog.rlove.org/2003/12/brrr.html Robert Love blog entry on joining Ximian] ] Later he became the Chief Architect of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. [ [http://blog.rlove.org/2006/08/slc-to-provo.html Robert Love blog entry on rising to Chief Architect] ] At Novell, he worked on various kernel and GNOME projects, including inotify and Beagle.

Love resigned from Novell on May 4, 2007 to work at Google, where he works on their mobile device platform, Android. [ [http://blog.rlove.org/2007/05/epilogue.html Robert Love blog entry on leaving Novell] ] [ [http://blog.rlove.org/2007/05/prologue-google.html Robert Love blog entry on joining Google] ] [ [http://rlove.org/ Robert Love's Home Page] ]

Love lives in Boston, MA.

Contributions

Love is the author of "Linux Kernel Development", now in its second edition, a book on understanding and developing code for the Linux kernel. Both editions are widely regarded as approachable and well written and have been translated into multiple languages. Both editions are published by imprints of Pearson Education.

Love's latest book is "Linux System Programming", subtitled "Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library" and published by O'Reilly Media. This work documents Linux's system call and C library API.

He is also a coauthor of the fifth edition of "Linux in a Nutshell", a comprehensive Linux command reference. The book is also published by O'Reilly Media.

Love is Contributing Editor for Linux Journal and a frequent author of articles for the magazine.

He runs a weblog whose postings mix technology discussion, photography, off-beat humor, and economics. Separately, he maintains a food blog.

Love has been invited to speak around the world, including linux.conf.au in Australia, FOSDEM in Belgium, and GUADEC in England, where he was a keynote speaker.

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External links

* [http://www.rlove.org/ Robert Love's Homepage]
* [http://blog.rlove.org/ Robert Love's Blog]
* [http://food.rlove.org/ Robert Love's Food Blog]
* [http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7924011302.html Article on his Novell resignation]