[kapilvt]

Arstechnica has a solid write up. He did a lot of work making linux wifi and driver ecosystem significantly better.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-w...

I remember cursing ndis wrappers and Broadcom wifi ecosystem a long time ago, Larry helped fixed that, and mentored many others along the way.

quote from the arstechnica article "In a 2023 Quora response to someone asking if someone without "any formal training in computer science" can "contribute something substantial" to Linux, Finger writes, "I think that I have." Finger links to the stats for the 6.4 kernel, showing 172,346 lines of his code in it, roughly 0.5% of the total."

[dang]

(This was originally from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40770724 but we merged those comments hither)

[haneefmubarak]

dang, could this merit a black bar in remembrance and honor?

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Kudos to Ars Technica for this piece.