[CLUE-Talk] Who is Alan Cox and what does he do?

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke B O'Fallon
> I keep seeing kernels released by someone named Alan Cox.  Who is he,
> and what is his role with the Linux kernel?

Alan is sort of the number 2 man in the kernel world, behind Linus. 
Alan handles patches for released stable kernels, though he also works in
the prerelease world as well.

> Why would I want to use one of his kernels rather than one released by
> Linus?

Because he rolls things in a little faster than Linus.  His releases
come out more frequently than Linus's, but the two eventually merge their
releases. 

You can usually see what he's released by keeping an eye on the LWN Daily
Page (http://lwn.net/daily/).

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    * The next CLUE Installfest will be Saturday, October 27, 2001 at 
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Subject: [CLUE-Talk] Re: [lug] New Emacs 21 out
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Yay!  A new OS!  :-P

Just kidding...

Nate

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 07:19:06AM -0600, B O'Fallon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For those who care about such things, the apparently long-awaited
> version 21 of Emacs is out.
> 
> Most of the mirrors don't have it yet, but one kind soul did post it
> at:
> 
>     http://ils.unc.edu/gbnewby/gnu/
> 
> There are rumors that, given the multi-role versatility of emacs, LILO
> can be directly linked to version 21, thus bypassing the annoyances of
> using an operating system ...
> 
> BOF
> 
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