Patrick Volkerding

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Patrick Volkerding (born 1966) is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. He is the Slackware Benevolent Dictator for Life. Volkerding earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1993.

Patrick Volkerding at Linuxworld 2000 NYC
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Patrick Volkerding at Linuxworld 2000 NYC

For a short while, Chris Lumens and others have assisted with his work on Slackware. Due to the lack of a continuing revenue stream following the sale of his publisher, Walnut Creek CDROM, to BSDi (which was ultimately sold to Wind River Systems), these people had to be let go. For the last several years Patrick Volkerding has managed Slackware with the help of many volunteers and testers. Volkerding brings out new releases of Slackware roughly once a year.

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[edit] Slack

Patrick is a SubGenius affiliate/member. The use of the word Slack in "Slackware" is a homage to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs: "..I'll admit that it was SubGenius inspired. In fact, back in the 2.0 through 3.0 days we used to print a dobbshead on each CD." [1]

[edit] Personal

On 2005-11-22, Patrick's wife Andrea delivered their first child, a girl, Briah Cecilia Volkerding. [2]

Patrick is an avid homebrewer and beer lover [3]. Early versions of Slackware would entreat users to send him a bottle of local beer in appreciation for his work.

Patrick is a Deadhead. He has been to as many as 75 shows as of early April 1994.[4]

[edit] Books

Published by IDG Books/M&T Books; April 2000.

by Volkerding, Patrick; Reichard, Kevin. Published By Hungry Minds; 2000-04-19

  • LINUX® Configuration and Installation ISBN B00007FYEC 1998
  • Linux in Plain English , Hungry Minds Inc.; May 15, 1997

[edit] Other media

  • Instalacion y Configuracion de Linux - (CDROM)

Eric Foster Johnson, Kevin Reichard, Patrick Volkerding; Anaya Multimedia ISBN 84-415-0816-X 1999-06

[edit] External links

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