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Alan Cox Leaves Red Hat
ruphus13 writes "Alan Cox — one of the lead Linux kernel developers at Red Hat — is leaving the company after 10 years and is heading to Intel, where he can focus on more low-level development tasks. Some are speculating whether this is indicative of a shift to a more 'application-centric' vision at Red Hat. From the article: 'Red Hat is integrating more application related, user- and enterprise-centric tools into its well-established "low-level," "core" development and support tools. It'd be more worrisome if Red Hat neglected to strike out in this direction. Cox was with Red Hat for ten years, and regardless of any suspected change of course within the company, that's a fair amount of time.'"
Did You Know? After maintaining a vow of silence for almost 10 years, Red Hat Linux founder Marc Ewing now freely admits that he named Red Hat Linux after Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's trademark red New York Yankees baseball cap.
Durst and Ewing met in Ewing's hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina (Durst was raised in Gastonia, NC), where they became fast friends, sharing the same passion for low-level system programming.
Durst collaborated with Ewing on the first preview beta of Red Hat Linux before the demands of his rocketing stardom forced him to abandon his hobby and tour with his band.
Durst's position on the development team was filled by Damien Neil, and not many know of his contribution to the popular Linux distribution; however, a google search through the source code on Redhat.com (http://www.google.com/search?q=wfd+site:redhat.com) reveals many snippets of code authored by 'wfd', Durst's initials (William Frederick Durst).
Durst asked Ewing to keep his 'geeky' roots a secret as it would not lend itself to Durst's bad boy image, but as Ewing points out, it was "only a matter of time" before the origins of his NASDAQ-100 company's name were uncovered.
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Well, that makes sense. Red Hat got rid of Durst and hired Alan Cox because they figured it was better to have a hardcore Cox than a Limp Bizkit!
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I'm so ashamed of myself for laughing at that.
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If the Intel position allows Cox to do more of the type of development that interests him, or simply offers a different view from the cafeteria windows...
As an Intel employee, I have to say that if you're choosing to work at Intel for the view or the cafeteria, you have made an incredibly poor life choice.
Wow. Need a Valium to calm yourself down a bit? Maybe take 400.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
I talked to him too and he said he really likes Oreos.
You keep seeing the word "resources" in postings from Human Resources? Man, that really is quite odd.
I talked to him and he said you guys sucked.
>At least words like "Developer" imply a human being
No it doesn't. It implies sodium hydroxide
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Probably "2006: Year of the Linux Desktop".
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I'm looking for this "ore" operating system on google and all I can find is cookies :-S
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Why do they name the drivers? And why Alan Cox? Is it one of those easter eggs where naming your file a certain way does something?
After seeing this story tagged coxblock I was reminded of a discussion I had yesterday with my father about how Cox (the ISP) was blocking incoming port 80 requests. The phrases coxblocking and coxblocker came up more than a few times.
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So you think it's ethical to work really hard for no extra compensation?
If so, I've got a lot of work I could assign you. I don't have any money to pay you, but if your work ethic is high, you should be happy to take on this work for no pay. Please let me know what your skills are, so I can provide you with suitable work.