Ingo Molnár

Ingo Molnár is a Hungarian software developer who has developed essential components in the open source Linux kernel.

Work

His best-known developments are of O (1) scheduler and the Completely Fair Scheduler in the 2.6 kernel and the kernel-based Web server Tux. Other significant contributions to the Linux kernel are improvements to the thread system of the kernel and the so-called Exec Shield, which can prevent buffer overflows on the x86 architecture. His current project is the real-time preemption patch (rt -tree '), which extends the Linux kernel for real -time capabilities. Ingo Molnar is currently employed at Red Hat.

Linux Desktop criticism

2012 Molnar criticized the Linux desktop much as " not free enough " because the centrally organized software distribution is too slow on the Linux distributions and not enough with the number of applications scale it to meet the expectations of the users. He pleaded specifically for the provision of a decentralized, efficient scaling and distribution independent software distribution method (similar to eg Autopackage, Zero Install, Klik successor Portable Linux Apps ), the absence of such a mechanism is one of the core problems of the Linux desktop.