Suspend2 Suspended

musicon writes "Nigel Cunningham, the creator of the Suspend2 software suspend system for Linux announced his retirement from the project in a message to the Linux Kenel Mailing List. 'Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the best of incentives to keep them up-to-date [...] I won't, however, be making any sort of concerted effort at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel [...] I don't see the point to doing anything but maintaining the patches as they stand.'"

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Home Missionary elder?

[MichaelSmith]

According to TFA he is going to be some sort of Home Missionary elder. He seems to be about 200 years too late. All the missionaries left years ago. At least I thought so...hope so.

Now I don't want to be rude but what we really do need here in Victoria, Australia is good software engineers and I can think right now of a spot for him a couple of cubes across from me where his knowledge of linux kernel internals could be put to good use.

Re:Home Missionary elder?

[LWATCDR]

Thanks for posting that. I was going to but you beat me too it. Yea I doubt it also but then there are a lot more Linux hackers out there that are Mormon than a most people on Slashdot know. After all Novell is out of Utah and BTU TV actually gives instructions on using Linux to view it's streams.
Funny how someone that lives in Salt Lake City and claims to know so much about the LDS church could get it so wrong.

What really BUGS the daylights out of me is why do people think they have the right to say he shouldn't do this! Read his post people!
"I'm delighted to announce that I've accepted a call to serve a congregation in Victoria, Australia, as a Home Missionary elder."
He obviously wants to do this! He is happy to do this why do some people think they have the right to say anything but best wishes? I mean for good freaking grief for all we know he will be working in a drug rehab program or a food kitchen! Bunch of selfish little brats are all worried that their free software will go away. Well you all have the code. Start working and stop whining because Nigel decided that there are other things HE wants to give HIS time too.

Re:Tragedy

[LWATCDR]

You have the source. Grab a copy and get to work. That is the point of the GPL. It is only tragic if you don't want it enough to work on it or pay someone to work on it.