I was honored to know Bill in four areas: ham radio, Linux, Asterisk, and through The Seeing Eye. Also we shared a common bond as long time Bell System guys. Even though I was quite comfortable with Unix from my time at Bell Labs, I had been away from it for 15 years. Bill was the one who brought me "back" in 2005 when I needed to get up to speed with Linux to build an Asterisk system for work. We had many, many long evening calls. I'll never forget his voice mail, "I check my messages often, so please leave one." And, indeed he did. Return calls came in minutes. Bill, you will be deeply missed. 73, Jim -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 11:32 AM To: speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Another silent key 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
