| Alan Cox of course worked on the TCP/IP stack: "His involvement with Linux began in the early 1990s when he was working on a project that required a stable networking solution. This led him to discover Linux, which was still in its infancy at the time. Contributions to Linux Kernel Cox's contributions to the Linux kernel are extensive and far-reaching. He is best known for his work on the Linux networking stack, which was critical in making Linux a viable option for server environments. Cox identified and addressed numerous issues in the kernel's TCP/IP implementation, enhancing its performance and reliability." [0] "For those not familiar with the Linux kernel contributors, Alan Cox wrote large parts of the networking stack, was the maintainer of the 2.2 branch, and was commonly considered the "second in command" to Linus Torvalds at one point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox"
[1] "Alan started working on Version 0. There were bugs and problems he could correct. He put Linux on a machine in the Swansea University computer network, which revealed many problems in networking which he sorted out; later he rewrote the networking software. [2] [0] https://machaddr.substack.com/p/kernel-chronicles-insights-a... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8548738 [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200923003028/https://www.swans... |