Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel developer.

4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Maintains: Linux -stable branch, staging, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, sysfs, Userspace I/O and the TTY layer (as of April 2013) (opens wiqqi.app)
  source: en.wikipedia.org
- Created: udev, linux-hotplug, the Linux Driver Project; started openSUSE Tumbleweed (opens wiqqi.app)
  source: en.wikipedia.org
- Employers: Novell (SUSE Labs); the Linux Foundation from 1 February 2012 (opens wiqqi.app)
  source: en.wikipedia.org
All 4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
- GitHub: @gregkh (opens github.com)
  “linux — Linux kernel stable tree mirror”
  
  2026-11-02
- Blog: kroah.com (opens www.kroah.com)
  His blog on the kernel, stable releases and maintainership.
13 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
- Filesystem corruption or data loss bug fixes should be considered CVE fixes. (opens korrents.com)
  “Personally, I think that filesystem corruption or data loss bug fixes should be considered a CVE fix, but until cve.org changes their policy, we can not assign CVEs for those types of fixes.”
  
  2026-02-16
- Any group attempting to assign severity scores to a Linux CVE without knowing the specific use case is lying. (opens korrents.com)
  “So any group that attempts to give a "severity score" to a Linux CVE is lying to you, UNLESS they know exactly your use case.”
  
  2026-02-16
- NIST/NVD's assignment of CVSS scores to vulnerabilities provides a false sense of security. (opens korrents.com)
  “ALWAYS ignore any attempt that groups such as NIST/NVD that purport to assign things like CVSS scores to a vulnerability. Those numbers are false and give companies a "fake sense of security".”
  
  2026-02-16
All 13 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
13 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed (opens rcmnd.app)
  “On the desktop I am running the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution (a rolling version of openSUSE that provides the latest stable packages) as I'm the one responsible for that distribution.”
  
  2012-11-15, software, uses, their own product
- Arch Linux (opens rcmnd.app)
  “I am trying out Arch Linux on my MacBook as I wanted to see how that distro was due to hearing good things about it. So far I'm impressed with it, and given that openSUSE doesn't work on the MacBook Pro yet, I'm…”
  
  2012-11-15, software, liked
- Gentoo Linux (opens rcmnd.app)
  “I run Gentoo Linux on my servers and my build machine.”
  
  2012-11-15, software, uses
All 13 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)

Greg Kroah-Hartman

4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)

2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)

13 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)

13 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)