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From: »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Uwe Thiem
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:54:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080714175412.0697e051@bellgrove.remarqs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200807141753.35904.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:53:35 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list
> longer than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up
> a little tribute here:
> 
> http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574
> 
> What that page doesn't say is how much Uwe loved gentoo. A long-time 
> subscriber around here, his posts must number in the 100s if not
> 1000s. I'm gonna miss him, even though he lived only 1000km away (a
> trivial distance in Africa) I never did get to collect that pitcher
> of Namibia's finest he owed me. I guess now I never will.

I'm saddened to read this.  I've benefited greatly from his posts here
as well as his work with KDE, as have a lot of others.

-- 
»Q«
     Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-14 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-14 15:53 [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem Alan McKinnon
2008-07-14 16:58 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-07-14 17:14 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-14 19:05 ` Florian Philipp
2008-07-14 22:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-15  0:57   ` Mark Knecht
2008-07-14 22:54 ` »Q« [this message]
2008-07-15  5:31 ` Dale
2008-07-15  7:07   ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-15  7:29     ` Dale
2008-07-15  7:21 ` Daniel Iliev
2008-07-15  7:46   ` Chris Walters
2008-07-15 17:00 ` Philip Webb
2008-07-16  1:21   ` Steven Lembark
2008-07-20 17:02     ` Mick
2008-07-21 13:17       ` Steven Lembark

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