Dan Aloni: Wikis

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Dan Aloni (born November 1, 1982) is a software engineer best known for the creation and initial development of the Cooperative Linux OSS project. He now works in XIV.

As a self-taught software engineer interested in the software virtualiztion field, back in 2001 he had attempted to port User Mode Linux to Windows using the Cygwin project. Although this attempt has spawned the UML-Win32 project, it didn't manage to take off, partly because of engineering difficulties and lack of developer interest.

Later in 2003, he managed to come up with the idea of Cooperative Linux. After a intense period of development it was released, spiking a large interest in the online Linux community.

On September 2005, Aloni joined a software firm named XIV (working in the high-end storage field) as a Linux specialist, teaming up with Moshe Yanai (who was responsible for EMC's Symmetrix fame). Aloni occasionally contributes various fixes and patches to the Linux kernel.