Very sad news indeed. He did incredible things with accessibility through Slint. It is a fabulous distro that even allows booting up in command line interface with speech.
He will indeed be irreplaceable. My condolences to all who knew him and his devoted work on accessibility. Regards, David J Ring Jr N1EA On Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 18:02 Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Passing on the sad news from the slint mailing list. > > Samuel > > > > From: Philippe Delavalade <philippe.delavalade@xxxxxxxxx> > To: slint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:18:02 +0100 > > Dear all. > > I am very sad to inform everyone that our friend Didier died last week. > > Early 2015, I asked on the slackware list if brltty could be added in the > installer ; Didier answered promptly that he could do it on > slint. Afterwards, he worked hard so that slint became as accessible as > possible for visually impaired people. > > You all know that all these years, he tried and succeeded to answer as > quickly as possible to our issues and questions. > > He will be irreplaceable. > > Regards. > > -- > Philippe > >
