Dedicated to Ian Murdock

jasongill wrote: post #4

djmobley wrote: post #2

RIP Ian

This is 18 months old news (edit: didn't mean to sound insensitive; Ian didn't just pass away like the title originally seemed to indicate)

Debian releases are rare...

Re: Dedicated to Ian Murdock

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Post by jordigh » Sun, Jun 18, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

What the heck actually happened to Ian? He's going to be my own personal "Elvis/Tupac is alive" brand of conspiracy theorising (not really, but I expect we'll never really know what actually happened).

At any rate, happy exclusive Debian user here for the past 15 years. Thank you, Ian, gone too soon. Your name lives on in half the name of my most belovèd OS.

Re: Dedicated to Ian Murdock

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 18, 2017, 8:29 PM UTC

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Re: Dedicated to Ian Murdock

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Post by brian_herman » Sun, Jun 18, 2017, 8:29 PM UTC

We should pipe some things into /dev/null in his honor.

Re: Dedicated to Ian Murdock

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Post by fslkjhjdfhgj4j » Sun, Jun 18, 2017, 8:38 PM UTC

Fuck the police:

http://archive.is/vBS6N https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7aa_1451521842

In memory of Ian, who gave his life for our freedoms

Re: Dedicated to Ian Murdock

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Post by freehunter » Sun, Jun 18, 2017, 8:38 PM UTC

jordigh wrote: post #6

What the heck actually happened to Ian? He's going to be my own personal "Elvis/Tupac is alive" brand of conspiracy theorising (not really, but I expect we'll never really know what actually happened). At any rate, happy exclusive Debian user here for the past 15 years. Thank you, Ian, gone too soon. Your name lives on in half the name of my most belovèd OS.

Is it really that big of a mystery? He had some kind of untreated mental health problems, had a run-in with the police, and then committed suicide.

I mean I guess you might wonder what exactly was running through his mind at the moment, but that seems a little morbid and super personal to me. It's enough to me at a high level that he had personal mental health issues he was dealing with, never got the right help, and ultimately succumbed to his demons. Is that an Elvis/Tupac kind of mystery?