"Poettering is best known for systemd. After a lengthy stint at Red Hat, he joined Microsoft in 2022. Kühl was a Microsoft employee until last year, and Brauner, who also joined Microsoft in 2022, left this month. The trio are leading lights in the Linux and open source world. Brauner posted on Mastodon: "My role in upstream maintenance for the Linux kernel will continue as it always has." Poettering will similarly remain deeply involved in the systemd ecosystem."
"According to the company's website, Amutable focuses on "determinism and verifiable integrity" in Linux systems. In its announcement, the company wrote: "Amutable's mission is to deliver verifiable integrity to Linux workloads everywhere. We look forward to working towards this goal with the broader Linux community." The Berlin-based company's goal is to build "cryptographically verifiable integrity into Linux systems. Every system starts in a verified state and stays trusted over time.""
Lennart Poettering left Microsoft and co-founded Amutable with Chris Kühl and Christian Brauner. Poettering is best known for systemd and will remain deeply involved in the systemd ecosystem. Christian Brauner will continue upstream Linux kernel maintenance. Amutable focuses on determinism and verifiable integrity in Linux systems and aims to deliver verifiable integrity to Linux workloads everywhere. The company seeks to build cryptographically verifiable integrity so every system starts in a verified state and stays trusted over time. The founders previously worked at Red Hat and Microsoft. Reasons for Poettering's departure from Microsoft were not disclosed.
Read at Theregister
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]