Patrick Volkerding

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Patrick Volkerding
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Patrick Volkerding is a software engineer who was born on October 20, 1966 and is known as the founder and maintainer of Slackware Linux distro. Volkerding is a SubGenius affiliate or member. The use of the word Slack in "Slackware" is a homage to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs: "I'll admit that it was SubGenius inspired. In fact, back in the 2.0 through 3.0 days we used to print a dobbshead on each CD." He enjoys working with Linux, and have had a blast making a complete package like Slackware available and easy enough for beginners to install.

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He is the "Slackware Benevolent Dictator for Life."

As of early April 1994 he had been to as many as 75 shows.

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