Career
He is the originator of SYSLINUX, Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA), and various Linux kernel features such as:
UNIX98 ptys
CPUID driver
The Linux kernel automounter
zisofs
RAID 6 support
x32 Application Binary Interface
klibc – a minimalistic subset of the standard C library
Anvin was previously maintainer of the linux.* Usenet newsgroup hierarchy and the Linux kernel archives at kernel.org, wrote the original Swap Space How-to, and the "Linux/1386 Boot Protocol" (file: linux/Documentation/1386/boottxt)
Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 from Northwestern University, where he also was president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX). His amateur radio call sign is AD6QZ (formerly N9ITP). According to his personal web site, he is a believer in the Bahá"í Faith.
In addition to his regular employment at Intel"s Open Source Technology Center, Anvin is currently co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree, chief maintainer of the Netwide Assembler (NASM) and SYSLINUX projects.
Previous employers include Transmeta, where he performed as architect and technical director Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software.
