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Alan Cox: The battle for the desktop

Alan Cox is generally referred to in the open-source developer community as... Read more

7 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Linux Expo: Alan Cox says 2.4 kernel by November

Linux developer extrordinaire, Alan Cox, revealed exclusively to ZDNet UK Wednesday that the 2.4 kernel... Read more

8 October, 1999 by Will Knight
Linux guru argues against security liability

Linux guru argues against security liability

Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a House... Read more

18 January, 2007 by Tom Espiner

The open source techie who means business

...Alan Cox is so well thought of in the open source community that... Read more

31 January, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Linux developers debate GPL 3 support

...I don't think we will be able to obtain permission." But Alan Cox, a well known Linux developer, tried to stop negative speculation, claiming... Read more

23 January, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Linux pioneer wins lifetime achievement award

...Alan Cox, sometime maintainer of the Linux Kernel and well-known open source... Read more

6 October, 2005 by Matt Loney

Alan Cox: What the future holds for Linux

Alan Cox is generally referred to in the open-source developer community as... Read more

6 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Alan Cox hails 64-bit Linux

...as important as the original PC market, according to Linux "kernel hacker" Alan Cox. He also criticised new guidelines suggested by the Internet Engineering Task... Read more

6 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Linux expert blasts movie industry over DVD

Internationally renowned Linux expert and kernel hacker Alan Cox, has endorsed Linus Torvalds' damning assessment of the current legal wranglings... Read more

3 February, 2000 by Will Knight
Ten things you can do to help open source

Ten things you can do to help open source

...to use open-source outside of the Linux world," says Linux expert Alan Cox. "OpenOffice, Firefox, PHP, perl ... a lot of web-based programming on... Read more

28 November, 2007 by Peter Judge

UK failing to exploit open source

...being done in Guatemala," said Linux kernel developer and Red Hat fellow Alan Cox. The public sector is scared of open source, he said, adding... Read more

13 September, 2007 by Peter Judge

Anger as Eric Raymond drops Red Hat

...than the Debian distribution. Several Red Hat developers, including Linux kernel maintainer Alan Cox, were angered by Raymond's move. Replying to Raymond's message... Read more

26 February, 2007 by Richard Thurston

The ups and downs of life with Linus

Linux kernel maintainer Alan Cox has given an insight into the experience of working with Linus... Read more

1 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Torvalds and Cox oppose software patents law

...of the most prominent figures in the Linux world, Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox, are urging the European Parliament to reject a proposed directive on... Read more

22 September, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Top ten stories of the year

...toward antipodeans, Sun is eyeing up 5 million such users worldwide. 8: Alan Cox: The battle for the desktopEventually something will come along and replace... Read more

27 December, 2002 by Matt Loney

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