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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox_(computer_programmer)
Another famous person in the Linux community is Alan Cox. He originally worked at Swansea University
College in Wales. At first, he particularly likes to play computer games, especially MUD (Multi-User Dungeon
or Dimension). In the posts of games.mud news group in the early 90s you can find a lot of posts he posted. He
even wrote a history of MUD development (rec.games.mud news group, March 9, 1992, A history of MUD). As
MUD games are closely related to the internet, he slowly became fascinated with computer networks. In order
to play the game and improve the speed of the computer running the game and the network transmission speed,
he needs to choose a most satisfactory operating platform. So he began to contact various types of operating
systems. Because of the lack of money, he could not afford even the MINIX system. When Linux 0.1x and
386BSD were released, he took a long time to purchase a 386SX computer. Since the 386BSD requires math coprocessor support and the computer with the Intel 386SX CPU does not have a math coprocessor, he installed
the Linux system. So he started to learn Linux with free source code and started to have interest in Linux
systems, especially with regard to networking. In the discussion of Linux single-user mode of operation, he
even praised Linux for being beautifully implemented.
After the release of Linux 0.95, he began writing patches (modification programs) for the Linux system
(remembering that his two earliest patches were not adopted by Linus) and became the earliest users of TCP/IP
network code on Linux systems. one. Later, he gradually joined the Linux development team and became one of
the main responsible for maintaining the Linux kernel source code. It can also be said to be the most important
figure in the Linux community after relaying Linus. Later Microsoft invited him to join, but he simply refused.
Since 2001, he is responsible for maintaining the Linux kernel 2.4.x code. Linus is mainly responsible for the
development of the latest development version of the kernel (odd version, such as 2.5.x version).
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