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Patrick Volkerding Back to Work

Posted by michael on from the stop-slacking dept.

AndreaP writes "Patrick Volkerding, the maintainer of Slackware Linux, is apparently recovering from his health problems and is back to work. From the ChangeLog of Slackware-Current: 'I'm back in California and I'm happy to let you all know that I'm feeling much better. :-) Here are a few updates so you can see that I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. Hopefully 10.1 won't be too far off ...'"

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  1. So... that's it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where's HIS changelog? I want to know what bug they fixed on him.

    1. Re:So... that's it? by Tezkah · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hope he has learned his lesson and makes nightly backups from now on.

    2. Re:So... that's it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      yo i heard they made him install openbsd. and then all the problems went away, looking for easier targets...

    3. Re:So... that's it? by dotgain · · Score: 3, Funny
      Wow, how selfish of him.

      Last time I recovered from a major, I was itching to get the details into my blog...

    4. Re:So... that's it? by iminplaya · · Score: 4, Funny

      They removed the SCO code.

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    5. Re:So... that's it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      They said the ESR in his blood was normal.
      I won't speculate how it got there.

    6. Re:So... that's it? by cygnus · · Score: 5, Funny

      i backup to the toilet every night, but i've never had the courage to attempt a restore.

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    7. Re:So... that's it? by plj · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'd call that logrotate, not backup.

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    8. Re:So... that's it? by cloudmaster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Linus says that Dump's a bad idea - you should consider an alternat backup plan. I'm partial to hardlinked snapshots using rsync and some off-site machines...

      http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3

  2. Man! by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    And just when Slackware was beginning to live up to its name... ;)

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  3. not to nitpick but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've spent my whole working life trying to get to the point where I say WTF and go fishing.

  4. Impossible! by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hate to break the news to you Pat, but Wikipedia says your still ill.

    1. Re:Impossible! by xgamer04 · · Score: 3, Funny

      says your still ill.

      His "still ill" what?

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    2. Re:Impossible! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      > Some of us know that there's more to life than parties.

      Like what, picking apart grammar and spelling on Slashdot?

    3. Re:Impossible! by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't worry, I changed it back...

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  5. No wonder he got better... by ZSpade · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'ts like 80+ degrees outside (LA, CA), and It's Dec. 19th. It's hard to get sick around here, and even harder to stay that way.

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    1. Re:No wonder he got better... by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 4, Funny
      It's hard to get sick (in LA), and even harder to stay that way.

      Try breathing...

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  6. No if he'd done that, by nlinecomputers · · Score: 4, Funny

    He would be dead because we all know that BSD is dead. *ducks*

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  7. Re:WTF by caluml · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey downloaded a corrupt ebuild, which hosed his glibc, but he booted from a recovery CD, and make HUPd the floogle, which he rscp'd over from the InterMX satellite, and after rdev'ing his kernel, he can now syslog to the console. Or something.

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  8. Patrick, you picked the wrong Holiday... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Christmas is for giving virgin births, it's Easter that's meant for rising from the dead.

  9. What about BSD though? by Karma+Sucks · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is BSD still dying?

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  10. Re:Welcome back! Glad for the update! by Limburgher · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your IP address is what again?

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  11. Re:Already Updated! by elronxenu · · Score: 4, Funny
    Eat that turnaround Britannica!

    I'll bet they don't even have an entry for Patrick Volkerding!

  12. So Typical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is SO TYPICAL of people who ask for help with either a health or other problem (think USENET) and then NEVER REPORT exactly what the problem was and how they fixed it!

    I am glad he is feeling better, but as one who contributed to info that might have helped him, I think he is essentailly holding up a middle finger (I'm better so no need to be polite and say why).

    Sorry....one of my pet peeves.

  13. Re:Cmon Pat! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I had all the symptoms he had. Turned out to be a lack of Vitamin B12.

  14. Pat's miraculous recovery by some+guy+I+know · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, he reversed the polarity of his plasma relays and reconfigured the main deflector dish to emit a tachyon pulse.

    No, wait, that was to fix some other problem.

    Oh, I remember now.
    He shrunk a team of specialists and a submarine and injected them into his bloodstream.
    They roamed through his body, zapping the bad bacteria with a laser.
    It was touch and go for a while, especially when anitbodies started wrapping themselves around Raquel Welch's shapely body, but they managed to escape through his eye before they returned to normal size.
    (I wonder whatever happened to the submarine?)

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