Patrick J. Volkerding (also known as Mr. Slackware and The Man , born October 20, 1966) is the founder of the Slackware Linux distribution and Slackware Linux, Inc. for the release of this distribution.
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 Patrick Volkerding at the LinuxWorld 2000 conference in New York | |
| Date of Birth | October 20, 1966 (53 years old) |
| Place of Birth | |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | programming |
| Spouse | Andrea Volkerding |
| Children | Brian Cecilia Volkerding |
| Awards and prizes | [d] ( 2014 ) |
| Website | www.slackware.com/~volkerdi |
In 1993, he received a bachelor 's degree in computer science from Minnesota State University Moorhead .
Content
- 1 Slackware Development
- 2 slack
- 3 Personal life
- 4 Sources
- 5 Links
Slackware Development
For a while, Chris Lumens [1] and other Slackware developers took part in this project, however, due to a lack of constant income from the sale of the Walnut Creek CDROM to Berkeley Software Design (a BSD / OS developer), which ultimately was bought by Wind River Systems , these people had to leave. Over the past few years, Patrick Volkerding has been developing Slackware, and many volunteers and testers are helping him. It releases a new distribution release regularly once a year.
Slack
Patrick is a member of the Church of the Sub-Genius religious group, created as a parody of religion , conspiracy theological theory and faith in aliens . The central faith in the church is the desire for non-action (“ Slack ”) - a feeling of freedom , independence, as well as the state of things when you get the desired result without doing anything to achieve it. Church followers believe that each of the people was born with the initial signs of non-action, but they were stolen as a result of a world conspiracy of normal people, who are called “pink” in the terminology of sub-geniuses. Thus, the use of the word Slack in the name Slackware is an expression of respect for J.R. “Bob” Dobbs , who is a key figure in the church.
Personal life
Married to Andrea Volkerding, 11.22.2005 a daughter was born - Brian Cecilia Volkerding. Patrick loves to brew homemade beer and drink it. Earlier versions of Slackware might ask users to send a bottle of local beer as praise to the author of the distribution. He is a fan of The Grateful Dead , the so-called. Deadhead He was at over 75 of their concerts as of early April 1994. [2]