Talk:Theodore Ts'o

message: Category:Linux kernel hackers is a sub-category of Category:Free software programmers which is a sub-category of Category:Computer programmers. This makes sense. So as Theodore Ts'o is among others a Linux kernel hacker he should not be listed in the other categories above as well IMHO. --mms 23:22, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories

message: Probably better for me not to update my own Wikipedia article, but someone might want to add information about my   new role at the linux foundation.   Ted (talk) 19:24, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: updated.  btw, the WP guidelines currently ask that people don't edit their own bio articles.  Lentower (talk) 20:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Request to update

message: The article currently states am I currently serving as chair of the Free Standards Group.   The FSG has merged with the OSDL to form the Linux Foundation, and so it would be more accurately to say that I was chair of the FSG until its merger with OSDL to form the Linux Foundation in January, 2007.  Citations:
* http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2007/01/21/new-linux-foundation-launches-%E2%80%93-merger-of-open-source-development-labs-and-free-standards-group/
* http://www.linux.com/feature/114217
Ted (talk) 16:45, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Free Standards Group merged with the OSDL to form the Linux Foundation

message: In 2006 and 2007, I led the Real-Time Linux team at IBM.   Information about that can be found here:
* IBM Systems Journal, April 1, 2008, "Real-Time Linux in Real-Time", by By D. Hart, J. Stultz, and T. Ts'o.  An on-line version of the article can be found: http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/software-services-applications-computer/11467912-1.html
* http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/innovate/ibm.html
* http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21033.wss
Ted (talk) 16:45, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real-Time Linux

message: E2fsprogs is the userspace utilities for ext2, ext3, *and* ext4; note also I am the maintainer for ext4.   Sources for that can be found in the MAINTAINERS file in the Linux sources.  I have also spoken about ext4 most recently at the Ubuntu Developer's Summit in December, 2008; the video for my plenary presentation on ext4 hasn't been made available yet.  I will also be giving an ext4 talk at FOSDEM in February 2009.Ted (talk) 16:45, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ext4 

message: As of June, 2008, I am no longer Treasurer of Usenix, and am no longer serving on the board of Usenix.  (I served from 2004-2008).  Also, starting in 2008, the Linux Kernel Summit (which I founded and have organized since 2001; see the Wikipedia article Linux Kernel Developers Summit) has its logistical support provided by the Linux Foundation instead of Usenix.Ted (talk) 16:45, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usenix 

message: It's not clear why Ted's statements were controversial. Who disagrees with them, and why? --ESP (talk) 02:48, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  EXT4 Controversy 

message: Ted also created "/dev/random" () and the corresponding kernel driver.  This was Linux's (and Unix's) first standard interface that allowed user programs to receive high quality random numbers suitable for cryptography (e.g. key generation), with or without a hardware random number generator.  Since its creation, /dev/random and /dev/urandom have become standard interfaces on Unix, Linux, BSD and MacOS systems, depended upon by many notable programs and facilities such as Pretty Good Privacy, GNU Privacy Guard, Globally unique identifiers, IPsec, and Filesystem-level encryption.
(Editing note: ordinary wikilinks to left-bracket left-bracket /dev/random right-bracket right-bracket don't always link to the page, due to some oddity in talk-page referencing.  See the first link in this section for an example of this oddity.  Nevertheless, the page exists, see the second link!)
In February 2009 I added a short note to Ted's article about /dev/random; it was reverted the following day for "lack of notability".  Oddly, /dev/random itself had already had a substantial Wikipedia page since 2004, which I had linked to.  The /dev/random page was edited by Emir Habul in April 2009 to add the fact and date of Ted's creation of it.  If history has shown that /dev/random is indeed notable, please add this information back into Ted's page.  Gnuish (talk) 21:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Created /dev/random, standard kernel/user API for cryptographic random numbers 

message: I'm not releated (as far as I know) to Zuǒ Zōngtáng.   The chinese characters aren't the same, although it has the same Wade-Giles.  The famous general that I might be distantly related to (at least we have the same clan name) is Cao Cao.   See  for more details about the Ts'o family history.  Ted (talk) 22:17, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong General 

message: Ted wrote this software http://pwgen.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pwgen/src/ChangeLog?revision=1.26&pathrev=HEAD as far as I understand, perhaps we could make some mention of it as something he did. He maintains it in Debian http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=tytso%40mit.edu  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.210.145.138 (talk) 06:04, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  PWGen 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Theodore Ts'o. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20081220043538/http://linux-foundation.org:80/weblogs/press/2008/12/18/linux-foundation-appoints-ted-tso-to-position-of-chief-technology-officer/ to http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2008/12/18/linux-foundation-appoints-ted-tso-to-position-of-chief-technology-officer/
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Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 12:39, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Any info about how to pronounce Ts'o? Torzsmokus (talk) 09:42, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronunciation