Rusty Russell

Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel.^[2] Linus Torvalds referred to him as one of his "top deputies" in 2003.^[3] In 2002, Russell announced the creation of the Trivial Patch Monkey, an email address for kernel hackers to submit trivial patches such as spelling errors, one-liners, documentation tweaks and other minor amendments to the code base. Adrian Bunk took over the role in 2005. In 2006^[4] Russell started work as the major developer of the "lguest" virtualisation system in the Linux Kernel.^[5] In October 2009, he was officially given a SAMBA Team T-shirt welcoming him to the Samba Team.^[6] In 2014 he started pettycoin, a cryptocurrency project.^[7][8] Russell authored the majority part of Bitcoin's Lightning Network protocol specification.^[9]

Russell conceived and conducted the Conference of Australian Linux Users at Monash University in 1999, the forerunner of the annual linux.conf.au conference series.

Russell is intellectual property advisor to Linux Australia and is active in advocating against and critiquing intellectual property elements of the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States.^[10] He was also a member of the Linux Australia committee in 2004.^[11]

Russell was the recipient of the inaugural (and eponymous) Rusty Wrench award for service to the free software community at linux.conf.au 2005.^[12]

• Russell, Rusty; Quinlan, Daniel, eds. (23 May 2001). "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard — Version 2.2 final Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Group" (PDF). Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
• Russell, Rusty; Quinlan, Daniel; Yeoh, Christopher, eds. (28 January 2004). "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Group" (PDF). Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Retrieved 18 October 2012.

1. ^ "OzLabs". Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
2. ^ Jeremy Andrews (23 September 2003). "Interview: Rusty Russell". KernelTrap. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
3. ^ Stephen Shankland (8 July 2003). "Torvalds: What, me worry?". News.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
4. ^ Paul 'Rusty' Russell. "lguest patches repository". Ozlabs. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2007.
5. ^ Jonathan Corbet (2 February 2007). "lguest: Spartan virtualization for Linux". IDG Communications. Archived from the original on 2 April 2007. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
6. ^ Paul 'Rusty' Russell. "SAMBA Coding and a Little Kernel". Ozlabs. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
7. ^ "rustyrussell/pettycoin". GitHub. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
8. ^ "pettycoin.org - losing tiny amounts of money at scale". pettycoin.org. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
9. ^ "Lightning Network In-Progress Specifications". GitHub. 17 May 2022. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
10. ^ Chris Duckett (31 January 2007). "Talking IP with Kimberlee Weatherall and Rusty Russell". Builder.au. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
11. ^ "Linux Australia Committee". Linux Australia. Archived from the original on 3 June 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
12. ^ "Linux Australia Awards". Linux Australia. Archived from the original on 20 August 2006.

• "Popping Kernels", Interview in Linux Magazine (UK), 2001
• Trivial Patch Monkey explained in Linux Journal, 2006

• Rusty's Linux Kernel Page
• Rusty Russell's blog
• Pettycoin project
• Twitter profile