Re: Regarding Ken Moffat

On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 04:00:39PM -0600, "Douglas R. Reno" wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> This is a bit of a challenging email for me personally at least to write, as
> I was friends with Ken for many years from private mails.
> 
> Ken Moffat joined the LFS project somewhere around February 2004. His first
> contribution back then was to fontconfig, where the font directories were
> incorrect. The first release he was mentioned in was BLFS 5.1-pre1. He was
> with the LFS project as an editor until last year, when he stepped down due
> to health reasons. His last request of us was to archive his font website,
> which is something he was very passionate about.
> 
> Ken did a lot for us over the 21 years that he was an editor, including
> significant contributions to security, TeXLive, command line mail utilities,
> and the Mozilla products, which he maintained in BLFS for many many years.
> Ken was also the editor who developed the security advisories that most
> users use today, and who encouraged me to continue maintaining them and to
> continue my studies into security. Since he stepped down last year, he had
> requested that I take over TexLive for BLFS and gave me a bunch of knowledge
> transfer information to keep that maintain. For as long as I am an editor, I
> will continue to do so, and support mutt and fetchmail as well.
> 
> We recently discovered that Ken passed away on June 24th, 2025. He will be
> missed, and may he rest in peace...
> 
> In honor of Ken, I would like to request that we edit the
> book/dedication.xml in LFS, BLFS, and our other projects for the 13.0
> release to dedicate them to Ken Moffat. If possible, I would also like to
> request a mention of Ken in the release announcements.
> 
> - Doug
> 

Dear Doug,

This is indeed sad news.  I always appreciated and valued Ken's support 
of the LFS/BLFS community on the mailing lists.  As a TeXLive user 
myself, I greatly appreciate the effort Ken put into documenting how to 
build the package from source.

RIP Ken, you will be missed.

Regards
Pierre

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