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Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away. RIP Larry Finger


Slashdot reader unixbhaskar shared this report from Phoronix: Larry Finger who has contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005 and has seen more than 1,500 kernel patches upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel has sadly passed away. His wife shared the news of Larry Finger's passing this weekend...

His wife shared the news of Larry Finger's passing this weekend on the in a brief statement. In part to his contributions, the Linux wireless hardware support has come a long way over the past two decades. And Larry's GitHub profile shows 122 contributions to open source projects just in 2024.In Reddit's Linux forum, one commenter wrote, "He was 84 years old and was still writing code.

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