[lugm.org] Damien Bergamini retires.

[selven]

This does has some significance :) When we were using that SAGEM adsl
'modem'  MT was giving out ... BSD users in Mauritius would have been forced
to be without the net :p, but thankfully that dude had the driver ready!

Plus he was pretty attentive on bug reports and almost always responded
positively! So yes news about him does has enough importance!

+selven

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Loganaden Velvindron
<gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Perhaps this fact might be interesting: instead of just shipping blobs
> that nobody can fix like freebsd/linux do, damien went the hard way and
> reverse engineered Intel's ultra Complex wireless chipsets that many
> linux programmers thought was impossible to do.
>
> His dayjob has nothing to do with BSDs or wireless, it was just a
> hobby :-)
>
> --- On *Sat, 10/9/11, Ajay R Ramjatan <ajay.ramjatan at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ajay R Ramjatan <ajay.ramjatan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org] Damien Bergamini retires.
> To: "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <discuss at lugm.org>
> Date: Saturday, 10 September, 2011, 8:03
>
>
> Interesting but I don't think this news has enough significance to be
> posted to the LUGM list.
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 00:13, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=pcthegreat@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> damien.bergamini.free.fr it was actually. He was actually listening to
> people on that small ueagle problems forum he had!
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:10 AM, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=pcthegreat@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> :( here goes the ueagle guy :( :s
>
> I would have had no understanding of adsl modems if it were not for this
> guy :(
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk<http://mc/compose?to=gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk>
> > wrote:
>
>  Damien wrote countless BSD wifi drivers that just worked. It's a real loss
> to see him gone.
>
> (He is the Bill Paul of wifi)
>
> As a testament to his incredible hacking skills, his ralink drivers
> contains around 10 times less lines of code that the ralink driver
> in linux which still sucks big time last time I checked.
>
> Yeah BSD is dying :-(
>
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