[ Thanks to Dean
Pannell (a.k.a. dinotrac) for this link. ]
From the Contributor:
“Here is a sad note that should remind all of us in the tech
field to hug a friend who’s finding the going tough in the wake of
continuing hard times in the IT sector. Sadly, there is too much
potential for more stories like this one…”
“Alan Eldridge (AlanE) passed away on 6 June 2003 in Denver,
Colorado, USA, apparently the result of a self-induced
overdose.“Born on 15 December 1961, Alan moved from Iowa to New York City
some 15 years ago to make a life for himself as a first rate Unix
programmer. Recently, however, his professional and personal life
was severely disrupted, and as a result, Alan moved to Denver to
start anew.“A member of the KDE on FreeBSD Core Team, both a FreeBSD and
KDE committer and maintainer of numerous FreeBSD ports, Alan will
be sorely missed by all those of us who knew him personally, by
those who knew him only through his work and, indeed, by the entire
FreeBSD and KDE communities at large…”