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Ascend910 , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

F for respect

Cyber , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

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 , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

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/#mfd2f4928e0e0…

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

lord_ryvan , 1 day ago

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

foremanguy92_ , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

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

Steamymoomilk , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

Based dude May he rest in piece as a fucking legend

MXX53 , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

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 , 2 days ago

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 , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

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 , 2 days ago

Can we get developers from the heavens to maintain FOSS?

spacedout , 2 days ago

Upstream

Steamymoomilk , 2 days ago

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

Lmao

nukul4r , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

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 , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

RIP and thank you for your contributions!

JetpackJackson , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

Holy cow I can’t believe it. RIP

blindbunny , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

Is this the dude that made ndiswapper actually work?

autotldr Bot , 2 days ago to linux in Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers.

His wife shared the news of Larry Finger’s passing this weekend on the linux-wireless mailing list in a brief statement.

Larry Finger began contributing originally to the Broadcom BCM43XX driver back in the day and over the years has contributed a lot to Linux WiFi drivers.

His more recent contributions had been around the RTW88, RTW89, R8188EU, R8712, RTLWIFI, B43 and other Linux networking drivers.

In part to his contributions, the Linux wireless hardware support has come a long way over the past two decades…

Longtime Linux users will certainly remember the days of struggling with WiFi support, resorting to NDISWrapper for using Windows WiFi drivers on Linux, and other headaches compared to today’s largely trouble-free wireless hardware support.

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The original article contains 183 words, the summary contains 137 words. Saved 25%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

MajorHavoc , 2 days ago

Great summary bot, as ever. But missed this absolute gem from the comments:

“Thanks for helping me wardrive and steal the WiFi from that dentist, Larry.”

tuckerm , 3 days ago to linux_gaming in Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code

Very cool. I'm also really curious about how the author ended up looking at Blazblue when working on this, haha.

secret300 , 3 days ago to linux_gaming in VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements

No man’s sky VR here I come

ElectroLisa , 3 days ago

NMS uses Vulkan directly

secret300 , 2 days ago

yeah? I use gnome and VR didn’t work. This plus the recent fix for gnome means I can play it in VR. I coulda just used KDE but I didn’t feel like it

ElectroLisa , 2 days ago

If you used Gnome over X11 then you’re fine, Wayland needed patches

No Man’s Sky VR in general feels unstable. On Windows it always crashed roughly 20 seconds after loading in. On Linux I have lots of UI corruption

MonkderDritte , 5 days ago to linux in “Systemd is the future”

Yeah, “Systemd won”, “it’s decided”, stuff like this on discourse. Sorry, but that’s not how Open Source works.