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Alan Cox (born 22 July 1968) is a British computer programmer who has been a key figure in the development of the Linux operating system that runs on the overwhelming majority of web servers that operate on the modern internet. He maintained the 2.2 branch of the Linux kernel and continues to be heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel, an association that dates back to 1991. He lives in Swansea, Wales, where he lived with his wife Telsa Gwynne, who died in 2015. ==Involvement in the Linux kernel== While employed on the campus of Swansea University, Cox installed a very early version of Linux on one of the machines belonging to the university computer society. This was one of the first Linux installations on a busy network and revealed many bugs in the networking code. Cox fixed many of these bugs and went on to rewrite much of the networking subsystem. He then became one of the main developers and maintainers of the whole kernel. He maintained the 2.2 branch, and his own versions of the 2.4 branch (signified by an "ac" in the version, for example 2.4.13-ac1). This branch was very stable and contained bugfixes that went directly into the vendor kernels. He was once commonly regarded as being the "second in command" after Linus Torvalds himself, before reducing his involvement with Linux to study for an MBA.〔(Linux: Alan Cox To Take One Year Sabbatical ).〕 On 28 July 2009, Cox relinquished his role as the TTY layer maintainer, after receiving criticism from Torvalds.〔(Linux: Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" )〕 Alan was employed by the Linux distributor Red Hat during 1999-2009.〔(Alan Cox: Moving on from Red Hat )〕 Starting from 2011 he was employed by Intel Corporation, left both Intel and Linux kernel development in January 2013 for family reasons, and returned to both later that year. He has also been involved in the GNOME and X.Org projects, and was the main developer of AberMUD, which he wrote whilst a student at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Cox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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