McEs, A Hacker Life: QoTD: Alan Cox is a thousand GNOMEs

Friday, September 08, 2006

QoTD: Alan Cox is a thousand GNOMEs

Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well.
—Linus Torvalds (2000-05-02)

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¶ 3:42 PM

Comments:

Alan Cox is on every mailing list. He likes to post one sentence responses to emails. No individual human being could do read all that...

--error27

# posted by

Anonymous : September 09, 2006 5:22 PM

I see Alan very occasionally around Swansea and from chatting to him I think he is just highly efficent.

It does seem to be true that he's on every mailing list and rumour has it that he can't use evolution because it can't handle the sheer volume of mail he reads without falling over a few days later (this is probably an urban legend though)...

# posted by

Anonymous : September 10, 2006 11:55 AM

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