Jerry Cooperstein

Biography

Jerry Cooperstein is a senior consultant and Linux training specialist at Axian Inc., in Beaverton Oregon, and lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

He has a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics and has been developing software on many different platforms since the 1970's. After spending 15 years doing research in nuclear astrophysics, he went to work for Axian in 1994 and has been developing for Linux ever since.

He is the primary author and maintainer of several of the Red Hat Linux Developer's courses, Device Drivers, Kernel Internals, and Programming Essentials.

Jerry was one of the technical reviewers for Rubini and Corbett's, Linux Device Drivers (2nd Edition), and Bovet and Cesati's, Understanding the Linux Kernel, (2nd Edition), both pubished by O'Reilly Inc.

Articles

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Testing SMP Kernel Modules with UML
Publish Date: Mar. 3, 2003Code that works well on a single-processor box may fail spectacularly on a multiprocessor box. Until recently, the only way to test this was to use a two-, four-, or more-way machine. Not anymore! Jerry Cooperstein introduces UML (User Mode Linux) and demonstrates how to emulate a multiprocessor machine with it by testing kernel modules. Vanishing Features of the 2.6 Kernel
Publish Date: Dec. 12, 2002"Housecleaning is almost an obsession in Linux," writes Jerry Cooperstein. The upcoming 2.6 kernel is no exception. While there are always new features to add, there are always features to polish and features to remove. Here's what you won't see in 2.6. Linux Multithreading Advances
Publish Date: Nov. 7, 2002Linux multithreading has traditionally lacked full POSIX compatibility. Recent development kernels have seen the addition of two competing thread replacements. Jerry Cooperstein examines the history and implementation of both NPTL and NGPT in plain English.