# Lennart Poettering ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-02-12 Lennart Poettering.jpg|400]] German software engineer, known as the creator of [[systemd]], [[PulseAudio]], and Avahi. He worked at Red Hat from 2007 to 2024, where he led the development of systemd, which became the default init system for most major [[Linux]] distributions. In 2024, he joined Microsoft to continue working on systemd. He is also the creator of PipeWire's predecessor PulseAudio, and has been a prominent and sometimes controversial figure in the Linux community due to the sweeping changes systemd introduced. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Lennart Poettering]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Lennart Poettering]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[systemd]] - [[PulseAudio]] - [[Kay Sievers]] - [[Linux]] ## References - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering - https://0pointer.net/lennart/