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

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

  3. 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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