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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.
Shit happens, wear a helmet.
this is what should happen to all linux zealots/kernel developer faggot communists.
I just farted.
In their memory, I shall hereby link to goatse.cx. RIP guys.
... was a Windows user, thought everybody ought to pay for the music they heard and the movies they watched, loved God and the USA, and frequently bathed. Good riddance!
Folks, this is a terrible loss to the Linux community. Leonard will be sorely missed by all those who knew him and made use of his fine work. Mr. Zubkoff clearly stretched a hand out to all Linux users by donating his time and effort to improve the lives of others. Leonard, you will be missed.
Was it smelly?
What, never seen a joke before?
Troll my ass.
He sounds like kind of a homo to me. Anyone who thinks that personalized baby blankets are a great gift needs help. I guess Leonard needed it, but didn't get it. Oops.
Perhaps microsoft has a special forces division and is going after people who maintain linux.
How come when Gene Kan died, it was never posted, but this Zubkoff guy's death makes the front page while his body is still warm (or would be, if he hadn't died in Alaska)???
[sniff, sniff] Smells like... CONSPIRACY!
Was Dave your gay boss? Is it true what they say, that to get hired you had to
pass Dave's "Blow Job Test"? At least he didn't die of AIDS. That's to his credit.
So who do you think Bill paid to take out a linux kernel developer? The US military? An out-of-work professional saboteur?
Reminds me of all those inventors who hoped to put their gasoline-free cars on the market. They just 'disappeared' or had unfortunate accidents.
I seriously don't care. He's just antoher guy I never knew. I'm NOT going to fake some tears for him. I really don't give a fuck -- I imagine his family is very sad and whatnot but stories like this really dont' belong on slashdot.
Geeks are VERY bad liars normally. The first thing that came to my mind when I read this story is "I bet there's going to be some funny comments"
I just don't care. FUCKING SUE ME.
And the other ~fifty-thousand people that died today? Maybe you should give a good word for all of them (since you knew all of them personally, right?)
"I'm Corey Jaseph. Dave and I had been together since June 2, 1982, when we were 17 years old. Dave was my best friend, lover, confidant, sounding board, partner in silliness, adventure companion and biggest supporter. He was brave where I was afraid, and calm where I would be hysterical.
We had many adventures with many of the people who will be looking at this site. We've been skiing in California, Colorado, Utah and Canada, vacationing in Germany, Japan and Hawaii, road tripping to the Grand Canyon and Death Valley, wine tasting in California, motorcycling to Canada, and hanging out in the San Juan islands with family.
His first dog that I met knocked me down, but then Gretchen and I became fast friends. Our first trip together was when we were 18 and had just graduated high school. We drove to the Grand Canyon in his Toyota Wagon 'mobile', which had no speedometer (which was okay, because it didn't drive faster than 55 miles an hour). We hiked the Grand Canyon in a day, but Dave decided to take a 'shortcut' up, to avoid all the switchbacks. I wasn't sure we'd ever see the trail again. I fell asleep in my pizza that night and Dave had to carry me to the motel. We had barely enough money to get home (no credit cards at that age!), and had to return some cave tour tickets we had bought, in order to get dinner that night.
Yosemite was one of our favorite places. We have stayed in the Ahwahnee, hiked up the back of Half Dome (Dave called his mom on his cell phone when we reached the top, to let her know our accomplishment), and learned to rock climb. We have hiked and played with friends there. I think Yosemite gave Dave a taste of what Alaska would later become to him.
We took two trips to Alaska together. The first was to visit friends in Fairbanks, and we stayed in a wilderness lodge outside Denali National Park. The only way in was by bush plane; there were no roads. We took a helicopter up to see Denali, rode horses through rushing streams, picked wild blueberries and cranberries, and saw bears from the airplane. This trip set the stage for a family cruise we took up the inside passage. Dave loved the trip and the wildness of the country. He took hundreds of pictures of Ketchikan and Misty Fjords. We did all the shore excursions on that trip, riding bikes down mountain, flying over glaciers, canoeing to them and hiking on them with crampons and ice axes.
Dave was always my adventure partner, goading me just a little farther than was comfortable for me, in a way that was fun and not too scary. He held me up and made me better than myself. His generousity of spirit amazed and humbled me. He gave everything of himself and everything he had to anyone who needed it.
I don't know what my kitties and I are going to do without him. Our lives were so intimately entwined that I don't know if I can separate the strand that is my own and continue it."
Corey Jaseph
corey@brainstorm.net
Leonard was a hell of a nice guy
hell??
becareful with that, you don't want to jinx anything here..
Jesus saves souls and redeems them for valuable cash prizes
Shit in the helmet.
Then wear it.
and has information that the men were attempting to join the "Mile High Club". I do not know what this club is, but I suspect it has to do with Linux and lonely grown men.
Ungagged
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. He was 54. There weren't any more details. I'm sure the slashdot community will miss him; even if you're not a fan of his work there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.