An honorary degree for Alan Cox

Congratulations are due to Alan Cox, who was awardedan honorary degree by Swansea University for his work with Linux."Alan started working on Version 0. There were bugs and problems hecould correct. He put Linux on a machine in the Swansea University computernetwork, which revealed many problems in networking which he sorted out;later he rewrote the networking software. Alan brought to Linux softwareengineering discipline: Linux software releases that were tested, correctedand above all stable. On graduating, Alan worked at Swansea University, setup the UK Linux server and distributed thousands of systems."