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Patrick Volkerding Back to Work
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 ...'"
Where's HIS changelog? I want to know what bug they fixed on him.
And just when Slackware was beginning to live up to its name... ;)
The coolest voice ever.
Hate to break the news to you Pat, but Wikipedia says your still ill.
His health: :-)
;-)
Well, I'm back in California and I'm happy to let you all know that I'm feeling much better.
His intelligence:
and then we can look at what exactly needs to be done to try to switch over to the new kernel series for 11, or sometime later on. I still don't think it's time for that yet (it will be best to wait until 2.4 can be abandoned)
And his sense of humor:
It's the closest thing to a blog I've ever done. (ooooo!
Looks like slackware is back in the running. Welcome back!
Defenestrate Windows...
So, WTF happened to him? Miraculous recovery from unknown symptoms, or what? One minute he's dying, and now he's just dandy. Chicken soup? What? Did he say anywhere what he had, how it was cured, or anything?
Try breathing...
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
You forget that by sending thousands of geeks over to Wikipedia one of them was bound to edit the article. It now contains the update that "On December 19, Slashdot carried the story that he is recovering and returning to work." Eat that turnaround Britannica!
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
He would be dead because we all know that BSD is dead. *ducks*
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Use PubMed as your medical information source. It's where the scientists and docs publish their research and is considering a "real" datasource (as opposed to citing "the internet". Your doctors will know the name Pubmed when you mention it. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi My daughter has a heart condition and we found the doctors weren't interested in really discussing anything until we started using the "right" terminology. The terminology I picked up after reading a number of PubMed publications about my daugher's condition. I highly suggest that anyone researching any condition (but especially something exotic like Patrick) hit PubMed. Make it your source you cite when talking to your docs. Make it your primary source of information. All the other websites you read are just summing up the papers published here.
You're wrong.
Patrick said (in his original "someone help me" email) that the plaque/toothbrush scenario was one if his theories. Since then, he has not mentioned it in any of his updates (that I could find).
All he mentions is that he wants to thank his doctor, and he's feeling better, etc, etc.
Personally, he always sounded like a bit of a hypochondriac prima donna, and I was anxiously waiting to be proven wrong.
Christmas is for giving virgin births, it's Easter that's meant for rising from the dead.
While in principle I agree with you, think of it this way: If you come to me for advice meeting women, does that entitle me to watch the resulting sexual activity?
Ignoring of course the issue of whether I WANT to. . .:)
You are not the customer.
Your IP address is what again?
You are not the customer.
...Projects that are centered directly around one person are a bad, bad idea. OpenBSD would suffer from this, too... specifically because Theo owns copyrights and whatnot. What happens when he quits, dies, or gives up?
All major projects should have elected core members, and shouldn't be dependent on them.