Debian contributor killed in car accident

[samjh]

http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20081229

The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community. Thiemo Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident.

Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways. He has maintained several packages and was the main supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS architectures. He was also a member of our kernel team, as well as a member of the Debian Installer team. His contributions reached far beyond the Debian project. He also worked on the MIPS port of the Linux kernel, the MIPS emulation of qemu, and far too many smaller projects to be named here.

Thiemo's work, dedication, broad technical knowledge and ability to share this with others will be missed. The contributions of Thiemo will not be forgotten. The high standards of Thiemos work make it hard to pick up.

To honour his contributions to Debian, the project decided to dedicate the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" to Thiemo.

The funeral service will be held on Monday January 5th 2009, 13:30 at the Dominikanerkirche in Bad Wimpfen. If you want to express your condolences please send mail to ths-condolence@linutronix.de . It will be passed on to Thiemo's family.

Sad news. :(

RIP

[MikeTheC]

Rest in Peace, Thiemo.

[upapilot]

How tragic!

[FuturePilot]

Very sad news indeed. :cry:

[MaxIBoy]

I can't say I've heard of the guy until now. However, as an Ubuntu user, I have benefited from his work on Debian. (Especially since the server edition and alternate installer uses the Debian text-based installer, which he worked on.)


As a sign of respect, I hereby resolve to leave Qemu running a Mips VM overnight tonight.

[kavon89]

:sad:

[dannytatom]

Sad stuff, would be nice if they'd name the next release after him. ;/

[koffeinöverdos]

Sad stuff, would be nice if they'd name the next release after him. ;/
I was thinking the same thing.

Terrible stuff. Obviously was a great man.

[bufsabre666]

ive never heard of you but reading about your work you truely deserve mad props

RIP Thiemo

[ubuntu-freak]

Just read about his death in the Debian newsletter, it's very sad indeed. My thoughts go to his family and friends.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Very sad news indeed

[notwen]

Sad news indeed, best wishes to his family and friends. I think it's really cool of the Debian project to let the public know and also to dedicate a release of one of the better(and my favorite) distros to his work and remembrance.

[clive littlewood]

Rip :(

[ubuntu-freak]

i think it's really cool of the debian project to let the public know and also to dedicate a release of one of the better(and my favorite) distros to his work and remembrance.


+1

[LookTJ]

Rip:(

[Twitch6000]

RIP Thiemo