On 31/07/2012 16:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > With great sadness, I have to report the passing of Andy Benton. > > I never had the opportunity to meet Andy in person, but after several > thousand posts to the lists, I think I knew him. His first post was in > March 2004. Since that time he made many, many contributions to LFS and > BLFS. > > Andy was from Prenton in northwest England and educated as an > Astrophysicist in Edinburgh. His son tells me that two things made him > happy: playing Team Fortress 2 and his work on LFS. > > Andy was 47 years old. He is survived by his Mother, Father, three > sisters, wife Angie, his son Eddie, and daughter Rusti. > > He will be missed. A lot. > > -- Bruce Hi,
Our hearts go out to the Benton family during this very difficult and sad time. Some of you guys have been working with me on LFS since its inception 13 years ago and Andy joining us 8 years ago has made him a permanent fixture for a very long time. We have seen each other go through life's ups and downs; marriages, birth of children, moving to other cities, starting new careers, immigrations, leaving the LFS project to pursue other goals and later on coming back to the LFS project... With everything we've been through as a team, I never once paused to think that this may come to pass as well. It took me by total surprise as it did all of you as well I'm sure. Bruce mentioned in his post that he didn't have the opportunity to meet Andy in person. I think most of us haven't had the chance to meet each other yet we all spend so much time "together". It's sometimes easy to forget that all of us have lives outside of LFS and we don't know each other nearly well enough. When Eddie shared a little of Andy's life it really drove the point home. I had no idea he was educated in Astrophysics which is something I'm working towards myself as well. I would have loved the chance to sit down with him and talk about our shared passion over a cup of coffee, had we only known it was a shared passion. Andy will be missed a great deal. -- Gerard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
