b. 1968, Solihull, England (lives in Swansea, Wales) · Long-time Linux kernel maintainer (networking, TTY layer)
Also known as: Cox
Alan Cox was an early Linux kernel developer and a principal kernel deputy in the 1990s and 2000s. He maintained the networking subsystem and the TTY layer and ran the kernel's "-ac" development tree, which often fed patches back to the mainline kernel.
Related people: Linus Torvalds, Greg Kroah-Hartman
Discussed in:
- Chapter 3: The Linux Kernel · How the Kernel Is Developed
