Michael Kerrisk is a technical author, programmer and, since 2004,

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of the Linux man-pages project, succeeding

Andries Brouwer Andries Evert Brouwer (born 1951) is a Dutch mathematician and computer programmer, Professor Emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is known as the creator of the greatly expanded 1984 to 1985 versions of the roguelike compute ...

. He was born in 1961 in

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and lives in

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. Kerrisk has worked for

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and, as an editor and writer, for

LWN.net LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It consists of a weekly issue, separate stories which are published most days, and threaded discussion attached to ...

. Currently, he works as a freelance consultant and trainer. He is best known for his book ''

The Linux Programming Interface ''The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook'' is a book written by Michael Kerrisk, which documents the APIs of the Linux kernel and of the GNU C Library (glibc). Book It covers a wide array of topics dealin ...

'', published by

No Starch Press No Starch Press is an American publishing company, specializing in technical literature often geared towards the geek, hacker, and DIY subcultures. Popular titles include '' Hacking: The Art of Exploitation'', Andrew Huang's ''Hacking the Xbox ...

in 2010. This book is widely regarded as the definitive work on Linux system programming and has been translated into several languages. As the

of the Linux man-pages project, Kerrisk has authored or co-authored about a third of the man pages and worked on improving the project's infrastructure. For his contributions he received a Special Award of the 2016

New Zealand Open Source Awards The New Zealand Open Source Awards celebrate open source developments in New Zealand at a biannual awards ceremony, held since 2007. The awards are run by the New Zealand Open Source Society. Past winners of New Zealand Open Source Awards Refe ...

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