18+ mwl , 23 days ago Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67. https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere. If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote. RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better. What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws [edited to remove echovita obit; apparently that's an AI scam site :flan_molotov: :flan_rage: :flan_hulk: ]
Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67.
https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels
This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere.
If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote.
RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better.
What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws
[edited to remove echovita obit; apparently that's an AI scam site :flan_molotov: :flan_rage: :flan_hulk: ]