Chris Wright is a

Linux kernel The Linux kernel is a Free and open-source software, free and open source Unix-like kernel (operating system), kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and was soon adopted as the k ...

developer and CTO with

Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North ...

. He was the Linux kernel co-maintainer for the -stable branch with

Greg Kroah-Hartman Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer. , he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O (with Hans J. Koch), ...

. He is involved in Linux kernel

security Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, or any other entity or ...

related topics and is currently the maintainer for the

LSM LSM may refer to: Science *Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (Modane Underground Laboratory), a particle physics laboratory in France *Lanthanum strontium manganite, a crystal used as a cathode material *Confocal microscopy, Laser scanning microsc ...

framework. Wright also serves as the Chair of the OpenDaylight Project Board of Directors. Wright is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) at Red Hat.

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