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So that Alan you wrote a computer Game called Seas of Blood in 1986 based on the fighting fantasy book of the same name? Htaccess 07:14, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Article references "programming freedom." What does this refer to, specifically? Free (GNU-style) software? Can we turn this phrase into a link to a Wikipedia article? Jdavidb 19:24, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Soft
Alan Cox doing MUD games? Wow!
born??
Is that an attempt to literally translate a word from another language? According to a dictionary, this meaning is:
Let's change it to something that more accurately represents the meaning?
Actually it can also mean
And more I think the point that the writer was trying to make was that the comments were highly imformative (lots of facts "crowded closely together"). It's actually standard English, no foreign languages needed at all: generally the idea conveyed is of a lot of complex facts and other information compacted together into one small work. It doesn't look like it needs much changing to me - Bryan
Actor, starred as young Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes, 1985. Actually there may be four actors by this name, according to imdb.
There is also another Alan Cox who works on FreeBSD which causes confusion —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AlanCox ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd much prefer "while", as I have never seen "whilst" before. Whilst this is not the "simple English" encyclopedia, we shouldn't needlessly scare away readers.
PS: I tried googling for whilst, and it seems the (major) hits are mostly people explaining the word, whilst the hits for while are people using the word.-- Per Abrahamsen 19:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Whilst is in very common usage in the U.S.
Can someone add information regarding his current Linux Kernel involvement (Sept 2006)? I remember reading (and it is mentioned in the article) that Alan was taking time off to work on his MBA, but it looks like he is involved in the Linux mailing list again (I have seen some e-mails from him on KernelTrap.org). What is his present involvement?
http://www.h-online.com/open/Dispute-between-Linux-gurus-Alan-Cox-and-Linus-Torvalds--/news/113882 Present involvement seems to be over now by the looks of it. 64.25.148.203 ( talk) 02:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
The opening paragraph is actually also mentioned in a printed book (Rebel Code). You can read a quote from the book (and read a reference to it) on http://twenty.sucs.org/TheSociety/About#wikitext under "A Brief History".
144.32.126.11 ( talk) 11:43, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
It would be good to have dates (and/or Linux version numbers) in the mention of the networking bug fixes. Could someone please add them? LachlanA ( talk) 05:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Both picstures on the page have him wearing a red hat. Is that a habit of his? —Preceding
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The version 18:26, 30 December 2020 Monkbot of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to expand an existing article there.-- Wing ( talk) 10:05, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
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So that Alan you wrote a computer Game called Seas of Blood in 1986 based on the fighting fantasy book of the same name? Htaccess 07:14, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Article references "programming freedom." What does this refer to, specifically? Free (GNU-style) software? Can we turn this phrase into a link to a Wikipedia article? Jdavidb 19:24, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Soft
Alan Cox doing MUD games? Wow!
born??
Is that an attempt to literally translate a word from another language? According to a dictionary, this meaning is:
Let's change it to something that more accurately represents the meaning?
Actually it can also mean
And more I think the point that the writer was trying to make was that the comments were highly imformative (lots of facts "crowded closely together"). It's actually standard English, no foreign languages needed at all: generally the idea conveyed is of a lot of complex facts and other information compacted together into one small work. It doesn't look like it needs much changing to me - Bryan
Actor, starred as young Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes, 1985. Actually there may be four actors by this name, according to imdb.
There is also another Alan Cox who works on FreeBSD which causes confusion —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AlanCox ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd much prefer "while", as I have never seen "whilst" before. Whilst this is not the "simple English" encyclopedia, we shouldn't needlessly scare away readers.
PS: I tried googling for whilst, and it seems the (major) hits are mostly people explaining the word, whilst the hits for while are people using the word.-- Per Abrahamsen 19:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Whilst is in very common usage in the U.S.
Can someone add information regarding his current Linux Kernel involvement (Sept 2006)? I remember reading (and it is mentioned in the article) that Alan was taking time off to work on his MBA, but it looks like he is involved in the Linux mailing list again (I have seen some e-mails from him on KernelTrap.org). What is his present involvement?
http://www.h-online.com/open/Dispute-between-Linux-gurus-Alan-Cox-and-Linus-Torvalds--/news/113882 Present involvement seems to be over now by the looks of it. 64.25.148.203 ( talk) 02:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
The opening paragraph is actually also mentioned in a printed book (Rebel Code). You can read a quote from the book (and read a reference to it) on http://twenty.sucs.org/TheSociety/About#wikitext under "A Brief History".
144.32.126.11 ( talk) 11:43, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
It would be good to have dates (and/or Linux version numbers) in the mention of the networking bug fixes. Could someone please add them? LachlanA ( talk) 05:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Both picstures on the page have him wearing a red hat. Is that a habit of his? —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
15.251.169.69 (
talk)
23:36, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
The version 18:26, 30 December 2020 Monkbot of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to expand an existing article there.-- Wing ( talk) 10:05, 8 February 2021 (UTC)