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.'"

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Re:The best of luck!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Alan Cox?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who's he?

Re:Alan Cox?

[jsolan]

He used to be a hilarious DJ on WXDX in Pittsburgh that I listened to in college.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox_(radio_presenter)

oh wait...

Re:Alan Cox?

[UnknowingFool]

I don't know him but does he run Linux?

*looks him up on wikipedia*

Now, I am an informed individual why haven't I heard about him or this "Richard Stallman" guy? Well they both have long beards, they might be good programmers.

Re:Alan Cox?

[Anonymous Coward]

I once met a girl at a party

Teach us, oh master!

Re:The best of luck!

[morgan_greywolf]

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!

Re:The best of luck!

[truthsearch]

I'm so ashamed of myself for laughing at that.

As an Intel Employee.....

[Anonymous Coward]

From the article:

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.

Re:Hmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

I talked to him too and he said he really likes Oreos.

Re:The best of luck!

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to pick on you in particular but could we please stop referring to human beings as "resources" and so on? I keep seeing this and other similar words being used in HR postings

You keep seeing the word "resources" in postings from Human Resources? Man, that really is quite odd.

Re:The best of luck!

[mustafap]

>At least words like "Developer" imply a human being

No it doesn't. It implies sodium hydroxide