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 ...'"

So... that's it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Where's HIS changelog? I want to know what bug they fixed on him.

Man!

[Faust7]

And just when Slackware was beginning to live up to its name... ;)

not to nitpick but

[Anonymous Coward]

I've spent my whole working life trying to get to the point where I say WTF and go fishing.

Impossible!

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

Hate to break the news to you Pat, but Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] says your still ill.

No wonder he got better...

[ZSpade]

I'ts like 80+ degrees outside (LA, CA), and It's Dec. 19th. It's hard to get sick around here, and even harder to stay that way.

Re:So... that's it?

[Tezkah]

I hope he has learned his lesson and makes nightly backups from now on.

Re:So... that's it?

[Anonymous Coward]

yo i heard they made him install openbsd. and then all the problems went away, looking for easier targets...

Re:Impossible!

[xgamer04]

says your still ill.

His "still ill" what?

Re:No wonder he got better...

[Stephen Samuel]

It's hard to get sick (in LA), and even harder to stay that way.

Try breathing...

Re:So... that's it?

[dotgain]

Wow, how selfish of him.

Last time I recovered from a major, I was itching to get the details into my blog...

No if he'd done that,

[nlinecomputers]

He would be dead because we all know that BSD is dead. *ducks*

Re:WTF

[caluml]

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.

Patrick, you picked the wrong Holiday...

[Anonymous Coward]

Christmas is for giving virgin births, it's Easter that's meant for rising from the dead.

What about BSD though?

[Karma Sucks]

Is BSD still dying?

Re:Impossible!

[Anonymous Coward]

> Some of us know that there's more to life than parties.

Like what, picking apart grammar and spelling on Slashdot?

Re:Welcome back! Glad for the update!

[Limburgher]

Your IP address is what again?

Re:Impossible!

[Brandybuck]

Don't worry, I changed it back...

Re:Already Updated!

[elronxenu]

Eat that turnaround Britannica!

I'll bet they don't even have an entry for Patrick Volkerding!

So Typical

[Anonymous Coward]

This is SO TYPICAL of people who ask for help with either a health or other problem (think USENET) and then NEVER REPORT exactly what the problem was and how they fixed it!

I am glad he is feeling better, but as one who contributed to info that might have helped him, I think he is essentailly holding up a middle finger (I'm better so no need to be polite and say why).

Sorry....one of my pet peeves.

Re:So... that's it?

[iminplaya]

They removed the SCO code.

Re:So... that's it?

[Anonymous Coward]

They said the ESR in his blood was normal.
I won't speculate how it got there.

Re:Cmon Pat!

[Anonymous Coward]

I had all the symptoms he had. Turned out to be a lack of Vitamin B12.

Re:So... that's it?

[cygnus]

i backup to the toilet every night, but i've never had the courage to attempt a restore.

Pat's miraculous recovery

[some guy I know]

No, he reversed the polarity of his plasma relays and reconfigured the main deflector dish to emit a tachyon pulse.

No, wait, that was to fix some other problem.

Oh, I remember now.
He shrunk a team of specialists and a submarine and injected them into his bloodstream.
They roamed through his body, zapping the bad bacteria with a laser.
It was touch and go for a while, especially when anitbodies started wrapping themselves around Raquel Welch's shapely body, but they managed to escape through his eye before they returned to normal size.
(I wonder whatever happened to the submarine?)

Re:So... that's it?

[plj]

I'd call that logrotate, not backup.

Re:So... that's it?

[cloudmaster]

Linus says that Dump's a bad idea - you should consider an alternat backup plan. I'm partial to hardlinked snapshots using rsync and some off-site machines...

http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3