Greg Kroah-Hartman used to work for the SUSE project

Feb 2, 2012 08:21 GMT  ·  By

Greg Kroah-Hartman, a maintainer of the Linux kernel project, has left SUSE and joined The Linux Foundation.

Even from his position of  Linux Foundation Fellow,  Kroah-Hartman will continue his work as a Linux kernel maintainer.

"The Linux Foundation does extremely valuable work, and I am proud to join the organization. I’m excited to continue my work on the Linux kernel alongside the best developers in the world and to increase collaboration among Linux Foundation members and kernel developers," said Greg Kroah-Hartman in the announcement.

The Linux Foundation Fellowship offers financial support to software developers working on the Linux platform and other open source community projects.

Kroah-Hartman is the creator the Linux Driver Project which maintains a number of important subsystems such as USB, staging, driver core, tty, sysfs, and other.