| H. Peter Anvin | |
| Birth Name: | Hans Peter Anvin |
| Birth Date: | 1972 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Västerås, Sweden |
| Nationality: | Swedish |
| Known For: | SYSLINUX, Linux kernel |
| Employer: | Intel Corporation |
| Occupation: | Software engineer |
Hans Peter Anvin (12 January 1972), also known as hpa, is a Swedish-American computer programmer who has contributed to free and open-source software projects. Anvin is the originator of SYSLINUX,[1] [2] Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA), and various Linux kernel features.
Peter Anvin grew up in Västerås, Sweden. He moved to the United States in 1988, as a teenager, when his father moved to Chicago.[3]
Anvin was previously maintainer of the linux.* Usenet newsgroup hierarchy[4] and the Linux kernel archives at kernel.org, wrote the original Swap Space How-to, and the "Linux/I386 Boot Protocol" (file: linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt)
Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 from Northwestern University,[5] where he also was president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX); his amateur radio call sign is AD6QZ (formerly N9ITP). According to his personal web site, he is a believer in the Baháʼí Faith.[6]
In addition to his regular employment at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, Anvin was a long-time co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree,[7] chief maintainer of the Netwide Assembler (NASM) and SYSLINUX projects.[2] Previous employers include Transmeta, where he performed as architect and technical director; Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software; and rPath.