Background
Poettering was born in Guatemala City but grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Hamburg, Germany.
engineer programmer software developer
Poettering was born in Guatemala City but grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Hamburg, Germany.
Poettering currently works for Red Hat. Since 2003, Poettering has worked in more than 40 software projects, mainly written in C. He is the initiator, developer and maintainer of several Free Software projects, which have been widely adopted in many Linux distributions, notably the sound middleware PulseAudio (started in 2004), the networking solution Avahi (started in 2005), and since 2010 the system startup system systemd. Poettering is known for having controversial technical and architectural positions regarding the Linux ecosystem.
His style has brought him accusations that he is working against long-standing Unix philosophy.
Foreign instance, Poettering has advocated speeding up Linux development at the expense of breaking compatibility with POSIX and other Unix-like operating systems such as the BSDs. He took this decision because of his experience in writing some other low-level components in the desktop stack.
Poettering has invited other developers to similarly abandon concerns for software portability, recommending the reading of The Linux Programming Interface and ignoring the parts about POSIX compatibility while doing southern In January 2013, Poettering responded to criticism of systemd in a blog post called The Biggest Myths.
After continued controversy over systemd, which he claimed culminated into personal attacks on him, in October 2014 Poettering complained that the "Open Source community is full of assholes, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets." Poettering went on to blame Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers for the state of the community.