Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died
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·January 8, 2025davidw
Sad news. He did a lot for Debian and Ubuntu.
tartoran
RIP Steve Langasek and thank you for your contributions to Ubuntu.
unethical_ban
Wow. RIP. It is a name I hadn't thought of in years. I was on Ubuntu Forums and some other Ubuntu communities as an observer/power user, and I recall him being a source of knowledge and education. "slangesek".
45, so young. Thanks for being there for all of us re: Ubuntu!
cute_boi
45 years :(
The article says illness, but which illness?
vanc_cefepime
Could be anything, sadly. Tteck, from Proxmox helper scripts recently died as well but did inform the GitHub community it was appendiceal cancer. Sadly he went quite quick too.
I had a medical colleague who unexpectedly died at 33 after Christmas.
Life is short. Hug your loved ones and let them know you love them everyday.
zblevins
Reading this while holding my new born and man does this hit you right in the gut.
tartoran
I feel it too. My kid is 6 and my most important goal right now is survive and be able to provide until he becomes a young adult. My father died right when I was 20 year old and while it was hard I managed. I can't image how hard it would've been growing up without a dad. And without a mom is probably even worse but I let moms worry about that.
danieldk
Yeah. This really changed for me after getting a kid. The thought I hope to live long enough to see my kid do X crosses my mind on a regular basis. Makes you enjoy all of it much more, especially because a lot of things that I can see her do now, I wished to see ~10 years ago.
giancarlostoro
As they get older it hits harder, just the thought of any harm.
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dezgeg
According to his Mastodon, stage 4 colon cancer
mmasu
do your colonoscopies early. It’s not a fun thing to do, but it can save your life
officeplant
It sucks that you have to basically choke the money out of insurance to get them done prior to age 45. I found polyps by paying thousands out of pocket when insurance told me 36 was too young and there wasn't enough blood in my stool. That's with a mother having them removed at 19, and older brother having them removed at 39.
bragr
Neither any of the articles I looked up nor his obituaries name the illness so I assume he wanted that kept private. Probably not how I'd handle it, but to each their own.
bluGill
Depends. AIDS (this is treatable these days, but I'm using it as an example) would imply a history of something he would want to keep secret from his conservative church. Of course I have no idea what his religion is, nor what he died of. If it is cancer - while rare at his age it happens and isn't something I'd be embarrassed of but maybe he was.
To some extent too, you don't get to chose this, those who write your obituary do. Perhaps his wife (I have no idea if he was marred) and him have a disagreement on what is embarrassing and so even though he would have shared this she wanted it secret.
fred_is_fred
This is some awful speculation. You speculate that he had AIDS and was embarrassed by his church or that his wife was embarrassed. You don't know if he was religious, you don't know if he was married, and you certainly don't know if he had AIDS. Why even comment?
kopirgan
So young.. It's sad
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/remembering-and-thanking-stev...