Hi,
I have never met Bill, but also remember him as very helpfull on this and
other lists.
His efforts regarding the building of custom kernels containing speakup
for the old Redhat and fedora releases saved me and meny others lots of
time.
Kind regards, Willem
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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
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