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Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Linux and its code are made by people, and people are not with us forever. Over the weekend, a brief message on the Linux kernel mailing list reminded people of just how much one person can mean to a seemingly gargantuan project like Linux and how quickly they can disappear: Denise Finger, wife of the deceased, wrote to the Linux Wireless list on Friday evening: This is to notify you that Larry Finger, one of your developers, passed away on June 21st. LWN.net reckons that Finger, 84, contributed to 94 Linux kernel releases, or 1,464 commits total, at least since kernel 2.6.16 in 2006 (and when the kernel started using git to track changes).

 

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