Re: [lfs-support] Regarding Ken Moffat

Am Freitag, dem 06.02.2026 um 12:59 +0100 schrieb Rainer Fiebig:
> Am 05.02.26 um 23:00 schrieb "Douglas R. Reno"
> ([email protected] via lfs-support Mailing List):
> > 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
> 
> Sad news indeed.  Obviously he passed away just a couple of weeks after
> his good-bye post on blfs-dev ("So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!").
>  His condition must have been more serious than his writing suggested.
> 
> I noticed and very much appreciated that he was always there when
> someone asked for support, providing help in a friendly and patient
> manner.  I also liked and miss his somewhat off-kilter humour and the
> likewise signatures he used - although I could not always decipher them.
>  One of the good guys is gone, I feel.  May he rest in peace and always
> have enough fish!
> 
> Rainer

So well spoken!  Thanks Rainer for this words, i totally agree with them.

And thanks Ken for all you have done.

-- 
Thomas

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