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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. Great! by chrisgeleven · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thankfully this guy has finally appeared to be cured or on the road to being cured. That was one scary story we all read just a month or two ago and it is great to hear all turned out well in the end.

  2. Cancer probably by PoderOmega · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you RTFA he is plugging a cancer specialist he either has or cancer or maybe a benign tumor that could they thought could be cancerous. But I doubt it is benign if he was having symptoms. Either way he doesn't want to come out and say it.

  3. Re:So... that's it? by Angostura · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Scolding? A lot of it was fairly sensible advice about how to manage the medical profession... i.e don't keep swapping doctors all the time, because they will tend to begin at the beginning again.