View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
Basilicous n00b
Joined: 22 Feb 2021 Posts: 4 Location: United Kingdom
|
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: In Memory of Kent “kentnl” Fredric |
|
|
dilfridge wrote: | Gentoo mourns the sudden loss of Kent Fredric, also known to us by his IRC handle kent\n. He passed away following a tragic accident a few days ago.
Kent was an active member of the Gentoo community for many years. He tirelessly managed Gentoo’s Perl support, and was active in the Rust project as well as in many other corners. We all remember him as an enthusiastic, bright person, with lots of eye for detail and constant willingness to help out and improve things. On behalf of the world-wide Gentoo community, our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends.
Please join us in remembering Kent below.
Original announcement: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/02/12/in-memory-of-kent-kentnl-fredric.html |
Rest in peace. _________________ I know basically nothing about gentoo, but I am trying to learn |
|
Back to top |
|
|
krinn Watchman
Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470
|
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Rest in peace |
|
Back to top |
|
|
nevelis n00b
Joined: 22 Feb 2021 Posts: 1
|
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I met him in high school. Including myself, there were maybe 4 people who were as enthusiastic and as into programming as we were. Programming, computing and tech was all we talked about. We were doing an all-nighter at our mentors house when we were 16 when he exclaimed "oh wow, they took it". One of his first open-source contributions was accepted - he had trouble with a boot loader on his setup, and after a few hours of hacking away he got it going and decided to make a patch for it. A few hours later, the maintainers accepted it. It was nearly 3 in the morning our time, and we sat there bewildered as it slowly sunk in that code that he wrote would soon exist on millions of devices.
Eventually we had fairly decent computers at high school, but only during class time. The ones we had free access to were shitty Acorn computers that weren't very powerful. I saw Kent do dual monitors before anyone else - but he was using dual machines... He disabled the GUI on one to reserve everything for compute and was hacking away on the other as a terminal.
The four of us managed to finish our computing classes a year early at school. I stayed at high school and did a few university papers via correspondence, but he & the other two went straight to the community college. This is where we had our first LAN parties. We played magic between to give our eyes a break but even when we were having a break or gaming, Kent was glued to his screen with 27 terminals open (he actually wrote a script to monitor his concurrent bash sessions, BEFORE he started using tmux).
He was dry, sarcastic, incredibly witty, he did not give a fuck what anybody thought about his opinion and was never afraid to share it. Unlike every other nerd I've ever known though, there was never any dick-measuring, any comparisons, he just didn't care to compare himself against anybody. When he submitted his first open-source contribution, I was learning Debian and he was just getting into Gentoo. But unlike every other Linux user at the college (who followed the mantra of "If you don't use my distribution then BURN IN HELL, YOU HERETIC"), he was actually helpful. He knew every package to install even regular expressions off the top of his head to fix up steps that didn't work.
This absolutely sucks. I'm so gutted. Both of us avid Devin Townsend & Tool fans, we had been waiting a decade for Fear Inoculum to come out, oh man... You just posted how it was over a year since Fear Inoculum had come out and then you left Facebook in September of 2020, and that was the last I heard from you. I wish I had said more to you man. Tell your friends and loved ones what they mean to you before you don't have that opportunity anymore. Rest in peace, my friend. Long before your time.
^D |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Juippisi Developer
Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 724 Location: /home
|
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:52 am Post subject: |
|
|
nevelis wrote: |
I met him in high school...
|
Thanks for registering to the forums to share this story :') |
|
Back to top |
|
|
teika Apprentice
Joined: 19 Feb 2011 Posts: 155 Location: YYYY-MM-DD, period. Have you ever used the Internet?
|
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 6:22 am Post subject: |
|
|
+1 |
|
Back to top |
|
|
aceforever n00b
Joined: 16 Feb 2017 Posts: 2
|
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
RIP ! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
nikolis Apprentice
Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 199 Location: Athens
|
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Rip |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Rad Guru
Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 401 Location: Bern, Switzerland
|
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I am hearing these news late, but my sympathies too. He is missed. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
drizzt Guru
Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 428
|
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Requiescat in pace _________________ People don't have to earn my respect. I offer my respect to them, but be careful to lose my respect... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
feismo n00b
Joined: 10 Nov 2020 Posts: 1
|
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:49 am Post subject: In Memory of Kent “kentnl” Fredric |
|
|
Sit tibi terra levis, Kent , miss you |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Zucca Moderator
Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 3343 Location: Rasi, Finland
|
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:26 am Post subject: |
|
|
nevelis, thank you for putting time to tell your story. _________________ ..: Zucca :..
Gentoo IRC channels reside on Libera.Chat.
--
Quote: | I am NaN! I am a man! |
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
gabrielg Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Nov 2012 Posts: 134
|
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
This sucks! Was just looking for something different in gentoo.org when I bumped into this - it seems like yesterday when kent\n popped up in #gentoo to give a fantastic helping hand, and at least made me laugh with his witty comments.
Rest in peace, thy will be missed. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
lorschy Apprentice
Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 191
|
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
RIP |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Yczo Apprentice
Joined: 09 Jul 2011 Posts: 225
|
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
From these lines I want to express my deepest condolences and my gratitude to his work; thanks to him and the other members, the computer world is better today. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Endermen1094 n00b
Joined: 16 Apr 2021 Posts: 3
|
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:15 pm Post subject: Remembering the one who passed away |
|
|
You will be missed even if i never interacted with you
You were a good persion in life and that yoy may be remembered |
|
Back to top |
|
|
ManDay Apprentice
Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247
|
Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 6:29 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I wish I could just upvote. I didn't know kent personally but sometimes met him on IRC where he helped. He did good. I'm sad to hear he had to go too early. My condolences to his family. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Sipos Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 121 Location: London
|
Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 9:13 am Post subject: |
|
|
Rest in peace.
I never knew you personally, but I am indeted to you for your work and grateful for it. Your work survives you, and is something that matters and helps a lot of us. Thanks. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
virtualwolf n00b
Joined: 13 Feb 2021 Posts: 2
|
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:56 am Post subject: Re: In Memory of Kent “kentnl” Fredric |
|
|
dilfridge wrote: | Gentoo mourns the sudden loss of Kent Fredric, also known to us by his IRC handle kent\n. He passed away following a tragic accident a few days ago.
Kent was an active member of the Gentoo community for many years. He tirelessly managed Gentoo’s Perl support, and was active in the Rust project as well as in many other corners. We all remember him as an enthusiastic, bright person, with lots of eye for detail and constant willingness to help out and improve things. On behalf of the world-wide Gentoo community, our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends.
Please join us in remembering Kent below.
Original announcement: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/02/12/in-memory-of-kent-kentnl-fredric.html |
Thank you kindly for all the great support, on behalf of the family they really appreciate the messages.
A Givealittle has been started to help his family out, my regards if this is against the forum rules however it would greatly aid the financial stress his family has had to bare.
Any donations would be greatly appreciated.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/kent-fredrics-funeral-costs
Thank you in advance. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|