Alan Cox
See also: Cox
Alan Cox (born in 1968) is one of the programmers most implied in the development of the Noyau Linux, since its beginnings in 1991. It installs one of the very first versions of Linux on one of the machines of the Université of Wales and discovers many bug S in the code of the interface network. Cox re-codes most of the management system of the network and it is since then one of the developers and principal mainteneurs of the Linux core.
It in particular had the responsibility of maintain branch 2.2 of the core, and its own branch 2.4 (indicated by the acronym “ac” in the numbers of version, like 2.4.13-ac1). This branch, famous very stable, contained many corrections of bugs, included most of the time in the official branch.
Often regarded as one of the most important contributors of the core Linux, just behind Linus Torvalds, it received in 2003 in Brussels the Prix for the development of the free software of the Free Software Foundation.
October 5th, 2005, Cox also received in London the price LinuxWorld for the whole of its contributions to the free software.
Alan Cox is currently employed by Red Hat, and lives with Swansea, the Wales.
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