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As many of you may or may not know, I helped start up PDXLUG over two years ago and it’s always been a very informal group. We have a mailing list, monthly meetings, a media sharing library (people lend books to each other at meetings and reserve books), have had a booth at OSCON (where we handed out tons of customized PDXLUG Knoppix discs), and it’s always been a fairly small group (in terms of people that show up to meetings). I don’t make it to most of the meetings as things like band rehersal come first.

Last night, we had our first ever “speaker.” However, the agreement was that he would just show up and sit around the coffee tables at our coffee shop meeting place and answer questions. Greg Kroah-Hartman co-wrote O’Reilly’s Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Ed..

Greg Kroah-Hartman has been writing Linux kernel drivers since 1999, and is currently the maintainer for the USB, PCI, I2C, driver core, and sysfs kernel subsystems. He is also the maintainer of the udev and hotplug userspace programs, as well as being a Gentoo kernel maintainer, ensuring that his email inbox is never empty. He is a contributing editor to Linux Journal Magazine, and works for IBM’s Linux Technology Center, doing various Linux kernel related tasks.

He was very friendly and fielded many different types of questions and gave honest feedback on peoples questions. It’s cool to know that so many great contributors to the Open Source community..live in Portland.