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RIP: Leonard Zubkoff

UnidentifiedCoward writes "LWN.net has a link to a blurb at KTVA, "Alaska State Troopers have recovered the bodies and released the names of two men killed late last week in a helicopter crash in Southeast. They are 38-year-old David Zampino of Fairbanks and 45-year-old Leonard Zubkoff of Crystal Bay, Nevada." Mr. Zubkoff was a linux kernel developer and the maintainer of BusLogic and DAC960 projects." Leonard was a hell of a nice guy and will be missed.

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  1. first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post?

    1. Re:first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Do you people ever stop?

    2. Re:first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Anyone else disturbed by someone trying to get first post? Seems disrespectful somehow...

    3. Re:first post? by tweakt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ya think?

    4. Re:first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, it's a tribute to whoever died.

      It shows that, although we're sad and everything, we're prepared to move on with life. Some people heal quickly, I guess.

      It was just some linux doofus anyway.

  2. Gloves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I fail to see how wearing a helmet saves you from shit.

  3. Re:you gay commies by monthos · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    its a damn shame this fool wasnt in that helicopter instead

  4. Re:you gay commies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You run-of-the-mill American.

  5. Mod up parent by Raul654 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not to be a troll or disrepectful or anything, but that comment is hella-funny.

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  6. Re:David Zampino, on the other hand... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    See we can tell your're lying because:
    1. Windows users never bathe and
    2. There is no god!
    You silly redneck.
  7. The lesson to be learned, my children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...when flying in a helicopter, NEVER play chicken with the ground - it always wins.

  8. Cryonics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Based on his web-site, was he frozen, or did the crash preclude that?

  9. Re:All these deaths by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Two things.

    What are modern day systems?

    Who else has died? out of how many?

    I conclude you're a troll .. begone!

  10. Re:All these deaths by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, my grandma was a linux developer. She compiled kernels every day and made her own "Home-Made" distros for everybody else to enjoy.

    Needless to say, she died. I suspect foul play.

  11. The what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Leonard... ...hosts the domain for Consonance."

    Domain for the consonants? www.fuckvowels.com?

  12. Re:Very sad day today. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Very good troll my friend!

  13. haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    helicopter crash
    dead flesh stinking charred flesh
    freebsd death
  14. Re:Too confident by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "He'd obviously gotten too used to using linux, and he thought crashing was something that happened to other people."

    Heh, you get a +1 funny, but a -5 flamebait. C'mon, use some tact. Of course, this is slashdot. Atleast it wasn't posted by an AC.

  15. What about Mr. Zampino?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wouldnt he be missed too?

  16. KELLY CLARKSON WINs AMERICAN IDOL ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe that pig won

  17. Re:Two people died by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well fuck you then... one's death is a loss for many others and doesn't not deserve your damned attitude.

    It doesn't matter if he used Windows... so if loved MySQL and a key developer of PostgreSQL dies, do you think that the developer would have deserved to die? I think not.

  18. TRUTHdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." Leviticus 18:22

    "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." Leviticus 20:13

    "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion" Romans 1:26-27

    "I have written to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people - not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. 'Expel the wicked man from among you'" 1 Corinthians 5:9- 13

  19. Mod Parent Up! by xactoguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't have much Karma... heck don't even know that I have any.... but please mod parent up, it's probably going to be one of the most important comments, what with everyone cracking jokes about the cryogenics thing and Alaska...

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  20. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The self-proving statement. You're not 95 by chance?

  21. Re:All these deaths by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that's my favorite movie, mr. gates...

  22. Re:Looks like David Zampino was gay... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd fuck your ass myself just for that moment of irony when you came first...

  23. Re:Obit topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ouch... mod parent up as funny.

  24. Re:The fuck is the matter with you people? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > here here

    where where?

  25. slashsuperstition by boots@work · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    And, further on in Leviticus:

    16 If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening. 17Everything made of cloth or of skin on which the semen falls shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. 18If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    19 When a woman has a discharge of blood that is her regular discharge from her body, she shall be in her impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. 20Everything upon which she lies during her impurity shall be unclean; everything also upon which she sits shall be unclean. 21Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 22Whoever touches anything upon which she sits shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening; 23whether it is the bed or anything upon which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening. 24If any man lies with her, and her impurity falls on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

    I hope you abide by these rules just as strictly. If you hold hands with your wife or friend when she has her period, or allow her to sit on your sofa or in your car, you're going straight to hell! And don't forget, she has to make a burnt offering of turtledoves or pigeons if she has a heavy period.

    Ah, there's a good god for the 21st century.

  26. Re:Cryonics - Hmmmm? by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Sorry to dissapoint you, but Alaska isn't ALWAYS Cold.. "

    Prove it. Name one time Alaska was ever on TV without a foot of snow on the ground.

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    "Derp de derp."
  27. Re:About David Zampino by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Praising an employee? Sounds like the polar opposite of Jeremy Porter, former owner of fc.net and current ICANN member, who thought it was okey dokey to use profanity on internal mailing lists.

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  28. Ever notice by Proc6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How no one that dies is ever a "total asshole, Im glad he's gone"? When was the last time you heard that at a funeral?

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  29. Re:Trolls Get it Right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about a little English lesson?

    Principal -> guy in school

    Principle -> idea