The Linux Foundation announced this week that Ted Ts’o, maintainer of the Linux kernel file system, is joining the organization as a Fellow and chief platform strategist.Ts’o will contribute to technical efforts including the Linux Standard Base. The foundation said Ts’o was the first North American kernel developer and has been a pioneer in Linux systems and an original organizer of the Linux Standard Base. Ts’o has been a senior technical staff member at IBM since 2001, where he worked on an enterprise real-time Linux solution. After two years at the foundation, he will return to IBM. Ts’o currently serves on the board of USENIX and is the founder and chair of the annual Linux Kernel Developers’ Summit. He also has been a project leader for the Kerberos network authentication system used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux and Windows. Technology Industry