Another silent key

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I have never met Bill, but also remember him as very helpfull on this and 
other lists.
His efforts regarding the building of custom kernels containing speakup 
for the old Redhat and fedora releases saved me and meny others lots of 
time.
Kind regards, Willem

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> That is indeed sad news. I too have recollections of Bill always being
> willing to help out. When I was getting started in running my own
> server, he very kindly agreed to do secondary DNS for me. That's still
> the case on a couple of my domains. He also let me run a virtual
> machine by him several years ago for a couple of months when I was
> moving, and needed to get electrical/phone wiring in place post move
> before I was able to bring my server machine back on-line. I have also
> benefited from his vast knowledge more than once. Rest in peace Bill,
> you will be missed.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:31:58AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
>> Writing to let people know that a long time friend and contributor
>> Bill Acker wb2flw passed away last evening.
>> 
>> Bill was responsible for putting our first Redhat and fedora speakup
>> enabled distributions together. In more recent years he maintained the
>> server where we shared dns services and provided mail and mail backup
>> for many members of the community.
>> 
>> He was an avid ham and phone freak and maintained a freeswitch which
>> many people using voip still use.
>> 
>> I am going to miss him very much. I'm sure others here will as
>> well. He died of complications to his prostate cancer which he's been
>> fighting for the past couple years.
>> 
>> 73s Bill. It's been a good journey.
>>
>>   Kirk
>> 
>> -- 
>> Well that's it then, colour me gone!
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