Rusty Russell

Paul "Rusty" Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate, known for his work on the Linux kernel's networking subsystem and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

Software development

Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel.Linus Torvalds referred to him as one of his "top deputies" in 2003. In 2002, Russell announced the creation of the Trivial Patch Monkey, an email address for kernel hackers to submit trivial patches such as spelling errors, one-liners, documentation tweaks and other minor amendments to the code base. Adrian Bunk took over the role in 2005. In 2006 Russell started work as the major developer of the "lguest" virtualisation system in the Linux Kernel. In October 2009, he was officially given a SAMBA Team T-shirt welcoming him to the Samba Team. In 2014 he started pettycoin, a cryptocurrency project.

Australian Free Software community

Russell conceived and conducted the Conference of Australian Linux Users at Monash University in 1999, the forerunner of the annual linux.conf.au conference series.

Rusty Russell (disambiguation)

Rusty Russell may refer to:

Rusty Russell (American football)

William "Rusty" Russell (born August 16, 1963) is a former American football tackle who played one season with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the third round of the 1984 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of South Carolina and attended Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Russell was also a member of the Orlando Predators, Charlotte Rage and Florida Bobcats of the Arena Football League. He was named Second Team All-Arena in 1994.

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Rusty Russell (American football coach)

Harvey N. "Rusty" Russell (December 1895 – December 21, 1983) was an American football coach. He is mostly known for head coaching Southern Methodist University from 1950-52 as well as the longtime head coach at an Orphanage in Fort Worth Texas, The Masonic Home and School. Russell was inducted to the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame in 1990, and is also a member of the Sports Hall of Fame at Howard Payne University, the school he graduated from in 1922, as well as The Texas High School Coaches Hall of Honor, and The Texas Sports Hall of Fame. He won NCAA National Coach of the week when at SMU, once in 1950 and again in 1951 for his respective wins over Ohio State and Notre Dame . He helped co-author the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Code of Ethics in 1952 along with Coaches Bill Murray of Duke, Lloyd Jordan of Harvard and Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma. That document is still used today. Russell was also a charter member of the National Football Hall of Fame Association. While in College at Howard Payne University in Texas, he was a three sport letterman (Track, Basketball and Football), was captain of both the Basketball and Football teams, and was named All Conference End in football in 1921 in the TIAA (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association- forerunner of the Southwest Conference).