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He was born 1961 in New Zealand and currently lives in Munich, Germany.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Kerrisk has worked for Digital Equipment, Google, The Linux Foundation and, as an editor and writer, for LWN.net. Currently, he works as a freelance consultant and trainer. He is best known for his book The Linux Programming Interface, published by Number Starch Press in 2010.
This book is widely regarded as the definitive work on Linux system programming and has been translated into several languages.
As the maintainer 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.
