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Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42
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| DECEMBER 30, 2015
| JORDAN NOVET
Posted on 12/30/2015 3:33:56 PM PST by pluvmantelo
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Excerpted so as to not fun afoul of any restrictions. Ubuntu is a fork of Debian.
To: pluvmantelo
He can’t be reformatted and rebooted? I thought Linux was the bomb?
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:36:24 PM PST
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
To: pluvmantelo
He tweeted: “I’m committing suicide tonight.. do not intervene...”
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:46:31 PM PST
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Gold, Platinum, Silver and Lead. Not necessarily in that order...)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
Source: thehackernews.com
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:47:27 PM PST
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Gold, Platinum, Silver and Lead. Not necessarily in that order...)
To: pluvmantelo
I’m surprised that he was so young. Personal discussion doesn’t happen much with technical e-mail lists for development and testing.
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:48:50 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
To: pluvmantelo
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:50:27 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: The Iceman Cometh
He can’t be reformatted and rebooted? Only if he is a buddhist like George harrison.
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:51:08 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: skr
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:54:49 PM PST
by
pluvmantelo
(They are BORN radical retards!)
To: dayglored; Swordmaker
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:57:19 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:58:38 PM PST
by
Bikkuri
((...))
To: pluvmantelo
(((PING)))
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:58:50 PM PST
by
HangnJudge
(Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
To: pluvmantelo
Silicon Valley is NOT kind to most people.
I was lucky to get out of that town without a toe tag.
One month, I worked 28 days straight and right thru Memorial Day weekend.
Six months later they canceled the project.
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posted on
12/30/2015 3:59:52 PM PST
by
Zathras
To: pluvmantelo
"The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately have information on Murdock's cause of death."
If the suicide story is true, it's likely that they were involved and know what happened. Some messages, possibly from Ian, were copied around the Net early on.
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posted on
12/30/2015 4:01:10 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
To: pluvmantelo
Raspbian is another fork.
It made me fall in love with Linux.
To: Zathras
At least you’re used to being beast of burden to other people’s needs.
To: pluvmantelo
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posted on
12/30/2015 4:06:50 PM PST
by
HangnJudge
(Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
To: skr
Looks like he had a problem with the police, felt his career was over, and that he had problems with African Americans (given his use of the “N word”) in his last postings.
What a waste. Debian (Ubuntu/Mint) is a great distro.
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posted on
12/30/2015 4:11:07 PM PST
by
bajabaja
(Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
To: skr
From the tweets, Mr. Murdock was detained for some reason by the SFPD. They beat him and released him. He asked if they had cameras just before getting into his car.
With that question, they followed him home and beat him some more. This led to a hospital visit, then a jail stay. Bail set at #25K, which he paid.
Makes him so angry he decides he’s going to tell the story, and then underline it by committing suicide at 42 years old. Made #1.4MM last year, and created one of the most influential branches of Linux - Debian. Debian begat Ubuntu and Raspbian.
Problem is there’s none of the promised blog posts or pictures. Just the suicide note.
This guy is a big deal in the tech world of SF. If there is any truth to this, the mayor on down is going to burn for this.
To: skr
Damn, such a brilliant mind so troubled. I never realized there was an “Ian” behind Debian, he left quite a legacy.
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posted on
12/30/2015 4:14:40 PM PST
by
bigbob
("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
To: RinaseaofDs
Was this one of those, Irwin Rommel, suicides?
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posted on
12/30/2015 4:18:25 PM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
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