About Harald Hoyer
Born 1971. Harald Hoyer is an engineer, known for Dracut (initramfs) and Gummiboot (software).
Harald Hoyer is a computer programmer and photographer, best known for developing the dracut initramfs generator and framework, the udev device manager of Linux, Harald Hoyer also made various contributions to the Linux Kernel, starting 1997. In 2012, together with Kay Sievers, Hoyer was the main driving force behind merging the , and file system trees into in the Fedora distribution
He is employed by Matter Labs
Harald Hoyer resides in Vaterstetten, Germany.
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Computer programmer
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Harald Hoyer was born on 4 December 1971.
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Harald Hoyer is an engineer.
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Harald Hoyer is known for Dracut (initramfs) and Gummiboot (software).
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