grapemix,

I hope we have a ceremony to pay our respects on pioneers like Larry.

Kristof12,
@Kristof12@lemmy.ml avatar

F

potentiallynotfelix,

im pretty sure i’ve used his drivers one time or another across my older macbooks or in one of my usb cards. RIP to Larry, I’m sure the linux community will miss his amazing contributions.

Duckling5746,

Wow Larry contributed to these old Broadcom drivers?! I’m using them to this day on my old macbook. RIP

MajorHavoc,

I hope I’m rocking that hard at 84.

My next non-alcohol bubbly drink will be in your honor, Larry.

lord_ryvan,

non-alcohol bubbly drink

Sounds like a good step towards rocking hard at 84.

Ascend910,

F for respect

Cyber,

I’m struggling with what appears to be buggy wifi on an old Lenovo laptop… I spent a moment just looking at the logs and appreciating whoever has spent time and energy trying to get this working, probably reverse engineering without any support… I wonder if that was Larry…?

UserMeNever,

I could not get this to quote right so I used code, but look at the footer that is unfortunate.


<span style="color:#323232;">* Re: Larry Finger
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  2024-06-22 23:01 Larry Finger Denise Finger
</span><span style="color:#323232;">@ 2024-06-23  5:47 ` Sirius
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  2024-06-23 16:15 ` Rafał Miłecki
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
</span><span style="color:#323232;">From: Sirius @ 2024-06-23  5:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  To: Denise Finger; +Cc: linux-wireless
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">On lör, 2024/06/22 at 18:01:23 GMT, Denise Finger wrote:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> This is to notify you that Larry Finger, one of your developers, passed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">> away on June 21st.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sincere condolences and our deepest sympathies for your loss.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-- 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Kind regards,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/S
</span>

lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/…/T/…

If the is something better. I hope you are there.

lord_ryvan,

Being used to tone tags, that /S signature felt so weird at first.

foremanguy92_,

I would like to thank him for everything, just thx ❤️ RIP

Steamymoomilk,

Based dude May he rest in piece as a fucking legend

MXX53,

If a random reddit post is correct and he was 84 years old, I can only hope to have the same drive and mental ability at that age. RIP.

ghostface,

I still say the elderly is ripe for development. Not having an issue sitting or standing for long periods of time. Plus the constant problem solving.

There should be a way to get seniors to work with and foss keystone foss projects.

Not to mention after they start its the monthly group meeting…

mojo_raisin,

Larry Finger, your work has made a significant positive impact on my life and I’m sure many others. Thank you.

Now can you work on a driver to allow communication between the living and the dead?

possiblylinux127,

Can we get developers from the heavens to maintain FOSS?

spacedout,
@spacedout@lemmy.ml avatar

Upstream

Steamymoomilk,

Bro you dont wana be bottom stream, Theres lots of daemons

Lmao

nukul4r,

This is unexpected, and hits really hard. I tried to get one of his drivers running with a fairly new USB wifi adapter, I made a Github issue, and he was super kind and helpful. This was only in May, it feels unreal to read this news. What a terrible loss, my deepest condolences to his family and friends.

narc0tic_bird,

RIP and thank you for your contributions!

JetpackJackson,

Holy cow I can’t believe it. RIP

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