[TriLUG] Fwd: [Dulug] bad news (if this thing is still on)

Jimmy Dorff jdorff at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jul 9 23:29:00 EDT 2013


More recently Seth was really into Ansible

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112546024501432223843/posts/82QwMiFXvvy
(not the greatest video quality)

-Jimmy


On 07/09/2013 09:53 PM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> De-lurking to re-iterate the same feeling :(
>
> For those who aren't aware, Seth Vidal was the author of "yum" - the Red
> Hat Linux tool for package updates, and one of the stalwarts behind the
> Duke University LUG in its early days.  He had contributed "yum" as a
> Linux user, and it was liked by Red Hat enough that it was included in
> the distribution as standard.  Later he was hired as a software engineer
> there.  I only met him a few times but my thoughts go to his family and
> friends.
>
> --Jeremy
>
> On 10/07/2013 1:57 AM, John Broome wrote:
>> Holy crap.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Luis Villa <luis at lu.is>
>> Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:51 AM
>> Subject: [Dulug] bad news (if this thing is still on)
>> To: The Duke University Linux User's Group <dulug at dulug.duke.edu>
>>
>>
>> Hi, all-
>>
>> For the very old-timers here, FYI that Seth Vidal was hit and killed
>> by a car last night while biking.
>>
>> http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=9166340
>>
>> I'll pass along funeral details when I hear about it. Please go have
>> some sweet tea for me in the meantime, and tip liberally.
>>
>> Luis
>>
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