About me

I am a Kernel Engineer on the Ubuntu Kernel Team at Canonical.

I was first introduced to Linux back in the early 90's when a high school teacher lent me his copy of Slackware. It was on thirty-three 3.5" disks, and it was quite the chore to get it running on my 486 at the time.

I remember the process of downloading a new kernel tarball, and planning an evening or two to configure and compile the kernel. I also remember how much effort it was to manually calculate the modelines to get XFree86 running.

My first contribution to open source software happened while I was at university, in the lrzsz software package.

When I graduated from University, I spent about a decade working on various other Unix's. I worked on network protocols, filesystems, and memory management systems.

One day, I asked a friend about was a good Linux distribution would be for me to install as I needed to run some things on my home computer. He recommended Ubuntu. It blew me away how much the installation process had changed and how user friendly it had become.

I ended up switching jobs, and I ended up working on device drivers for Linux from 2010 until 2021. My distribution of choice has remained an Ubuntu based distribution.

What I do

I joined Canonical in 2021, and I am on the kernel team. So, I work on Ubuntu kernels. But more specifically, I am responsible for the Ubuntu kernels for Intel systems.

Links

• Launchpad profile: https://launchpad.net/~philcox

• Email: philip.cox@canonical.com

• IRC: philcox

Activity

https://bugs.launchpad.net/~philcox

Sponsoring

My application for Ubuntu kernel upload rights PhilipCox/KernelUploadsApplication