Amen!

I'll second that!

I"m not gonna hope for a speedy recovery.. take as long as you want.. just.. don't die..

Don't forget to take into consideration how many are actually cured by practitioners of 'alternative medicine', compared with real medicine, as well.

That sort of raises the issue of what constitutes "killed," doesn't it?

If dying after undergoing an alternative medical treatment counts as dying of the original disease, then naturopathy can never be said to have killed even a single person. Conversely, if a person dies after undergoing a modern medical treatment and is counted as "killed by modern medicine," then every unsuccessful medical treatment can be scored as a medical murder regardless of whether there was malpractice involved.

So if you have ten victims of disease or illness, five of which die after following a naturopathic remedy, and five of which die after undergoing a modern medical procedure or treatment, then the score card winds up being "Science 5, Nature 0."

Just found out the news today as I was updating the kernel.

Get well soon, Pat! The world needs you.

so true
we all hope you'll get well soon

Get well and my prayer are with you patrick!

No news since a long time ago... In France, we say: "No news, good news". Hope it's an international rule .

I hope he's gonna get back too and in great shape. I have used slackware time to time and i found it very good compared to many distros, and superfast too.

I would like him not to continue the one man show. He's done a terrific job, but for one man i think it is too much. Sometimes, a guy has to find a way to go to bed... and sleep... without thinking about kernel compiling, packages, ...

If the slackware community could do like the debian community in sense of committing packages... it would be good, maybe with linuxpackages.net. Pat would just act as a supervisor and keep improving the distro by other means that too much programming.

I am myself trying to avoid the pc as much as i can these days. I'll be spending christmas holidays without working on anything or getting near a computer :eating , sleeping, sometimes drinking or going out.

Interesting, but i prefer the "one man" solution. I have seen many broken things in Debian (plz don't scream, 2 dvd are huge...). A good deal would be an how-to-make-your-Slackware. It can work even only with a listing of sources to dl and compile. But for the a/ series... dunno . The fact is Debian will survive over their creators. For Slack, the question stays unanswered by now. I'm not an expert, but i can see that Slackware MUST survive. This distro is so "intelligent", but i don't have to enumerate her qualities in this thread . I like to tell it's a ninja's distro ^^. A ninja don't do blahblahs. It kills. EOF.

it depends, Pat obviously had to love his distro so much, that he doesn't permit anyone else to work in slackware, that in somehow is good, cause slackware compare to others big community distro *debian, mandrake, fedora, gentoo* is one of the most security and stable one, the reason? very simple one hand working in the hardware work better than thousand hands putting things here and there, Now, the bad part of all this is the fact that if that only hand get sick, or can't work anymore there won't be more slackware. I would suggest to Pat if he get better and decide to continue working in slackware, that let other people make software for slackware but... before they can release them, Pat should check them out, view the source code, etc. Just to verify that no broken packages are inserted in slackware *I admit slack does had some broken things, but are very less in compare with the rest of distro*

Good luck Pat, hope you get in full health like you was before.

We need you Pat! Get well and take some time off!

no news for a long time ...like the previous poster said...no news is good news.hopefully.

I'm hoping that's true. Take Care Patrick!