I too have fond memories of Bill. Although we never met in person, we had long chats about the phone system, ham radio, and of course Linux. I hope a collection of all the messages remembering Bill can be pulled together and forwarded on to his Wife. You will be missed in all the different ways you have touched this communities lives. 73 Bill, VE6 AYT -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser Sent: August-24-15 9:32 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
