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Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness

Posted by michael on from the two-aspirin-and-call-in-the-morning dept.

sethadam1 writes "Calling all Slashdoctors! Pat Volkerding, maintainer of Slackware Linux, needs your help. This morning, he posted his very detailed account (mirror) of his battle with Actinomyces here on the Slackware FTP server. Patrick has given his blood, sweat, and tears to the open source community for years in Slackware, one of the oldest surviving Linux distributions. If you can, please help!"

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  1. 145 lbs. by raygundan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm 6'1" and 145 lbs, which is close. I'm a runner and a triathlete, and can at least vouch for the fact that you *can* be quite healthy at that height and weight. It's just how I'm built.

    Not that this has anything to do with the story, really, but you asked.

  2. Re:This is Slackware! by bobsalt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Format hard drive
    apt-get update
    apt-get dist-upgrade

    and call me in the morning"

    silly debian users...its slapt-get, not atp-get

    its a joke son, laugh....



  3. Re:Cross the border by Knara · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MN has something to brag about (me being a MN'er for 25 years or so) if only in that they're one of the few perrenially blue states ever four years ;)