That is indeed sad news. I too have recollections of Bill always being willing to help out. When I was getting started in running my own server, he very kindly agreed to do secondary DNS for me. That's still the case on a couple of my domains. He also let me run a virtual machine by him several years ago for a couple of months when I was moving, and needed to get electrical/phone wiring in place post move before I was able to bring my server machine back on-line. I have also benefited from his vast knowledge more than once. Rest in peace Bill, you will be missed. Greg On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:31:58AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Writing to let people know that a long time friend and contributor > Bill Acker wb2flw passed away last evening. > > Bill was responsible for putting our first Redhat and fedora speakup > enabled distributions together. In more recent years he maintained the > server where we shared dns services and provided mail and mail backup > for many members of the community. > > He was an avid ham and phone freak and maintained a freeswitch which > many people using voip still use. > > I am going to miss him very much. I'm sure others here will as > well. He died of complications to his prostate cancer which he's been > fighting for the past couple years. > > 73s Bill. It's been a good journey. > > Kirk > > -- > Well that's it then, colour me gone! > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
