Another silent key

Tom Fowle wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm
Mon Aug 24 22:42:37 EDT 2015


Bill was a great guy, was very helpfull to me when learning Fedora and
through several installs. I've always wished I'd had more time to just yack
with him.

We'll all meet someday in that great open source shack in the ether.
Tom Fowle WA6IVG

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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