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RIP Mike Karels 1956-2024

• gjvc 2y ago
  also https://www.facebook.com/groups/BSDCan/permalink/10159552565206372/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/BSDCan/permalink/10159552565...
  • toomuchtodo 2y ago
    > I am sad to report that Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67. https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karel... This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere. If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote. RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better. What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws
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• 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
  Not much info on this Wikipedia page. He was a PhD candidate in Molecular Biology at Berkeley and that's how he discovered UNIX. Never finished his PhD.
  • gjvc 2y ago
    Thank you for your insightful commentary on someone who has passed away at too young an age. This is a great talk of his from 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws That he passed on his way back from a BSD conference was bitter-sweet.
  • 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
    Karels' RFC: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc936.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc936.txt