Good luck on everything buddy! You will be missed. :-) -Link
On Feb 27, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Michael Baehr wrote:
You folks have probably noticed my absence in the last few months from #archlinux, and the abandonment of my GNUstep repository and TUR. I'd like to explain why.
In the last few months, two things have happened.
The first is, I got a job. The second is, first one PC, and then the second, utterly failed on me.
I currently do not have a usable piece of x86 hardware to develop on, nor do I have the money to attempt to build yet another one. I've spent way too much time and money trying to fix component after component in order to get a system worthy of "compiling things" without it locking up, overheating, and generally malfunctioning, and it hasn't paid off in the end.
The PIII 866mhz box I accepted from a friend was also unreliable and crashy. Don't take this as a blanket condemnation of PC hardware, but I am avoiding this class of machines in the near future and probably beyond. This means I can no longer use and develop for my favorite PC operating system, which would be Arch Linux.
Making packages for Arch and being a general helper-bot around the channel and forums has been a great experience from day one. I'd like to thank Judd for creating such a wonderful distro, and I'd like to thank the great team that has surrounded it and helped make it what it is today. Some specific thanks go out to Jason Chu (Xentac), Ben Mazer (contrasutra), the rest of the TUs, the Arch community in general, and all of my friends in IRC.
Arch has the makings of a great Linux distribution, and some of its technologies seem poised to be useful elsewhere, too. I'm planning on continuing work on my baby fork of pacman and makepkg once I have another system to use. Chances are that system will be a Mac mini running OpenBSD-PPC.
My GNUstep repository is currently outdated and incompatible with certain newer packages in Arch. I'm already speaking to people regarding passing on maintenance so that it continues to grow and be updated. I strived in the past to make it one of the best selections of GNUstep packages available anywhere, and I trust that it has enough users and general utility to make it worth continuing in someone else's able hands.
Thanks for all the great times, and may Arch continue to grow and prosper.
Sincerely,
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