Rest in peace.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/ ... edric.html
In Memory of Kent “kentnl” Fredric
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Re: In Memory of Kent “kentnl” Fredric
I know basically nothing about gentoo, but I am trying to learn 
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
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
In Memory of Kent “kentnl” Fredric
Sit tibi terra levis, Kent , miss you
nevelis, thank you for putting time to tell your story.
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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
You were a good persion in life and that yoy may be remembered
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Re: In Memory of Kent “kentnl” Fredric
Thank you kindly for all the great support, on behalf of the family they really appreciate the messages.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/ ... edric.html
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-fr ... eral-costs
Thank you in advance.