Patrick Volkerding

Patrick Volkerding is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. Slackware users ( Slackers ) often refer to him as The Man , as a token of respect. He is the Slackware Benevolent Dictator for Life.

For a short while, Chris Lumens and others have assisted his work on Slackware, but for the last couple of years he has been working alone again. Volkerding still manages to bring out new releases.

Volkerding earned a BSc in Computer Science from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1993.

=Illness=

During he wrote he still was not fully recovered, and was still working to try and find a definitive diagnosis and treatment.