Comments | james_morris: RIP Anthony Rumble

james_morris

RIP Anthony Rumble

May 15, 2009 14:49

I was shocked today to read of the passing of Anthony Rumble, a true pioneer of Linux, the Internet, and electronic commerce in Australia.

I first met him at an APANA BBQ in 1994, where he handed me my first Linux distribution: Slackware 1.1.2, with the trusty 0.99pl15 kernel.

I subsequently worked with Anthony on the NetXpress project, which he ( Read more... )

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anonymous May 15 2009, 07:58:45 UTC

Anthony will be certainly missed. My thoughts and prays go out to his family.

NetXpress ext_120296 May 17 2009, 11:54:28 UTC

I'm not sure NetXpress was running Linux on the production servers. Development certainly was Linux, and I think some of the batch components were. But at the time the project manager succumbed to the "nobody got sacked for choosing Sun" argument.

Perhaps later iterations ran Linux though.

Re: NetXpress james_morris May 18 2009, 00:56:55 UTC

It was definitely running Linux in production when I was there (c. 1999+), and won some kind of international award for doing so from a consulting group, who'd scoured the world to find such a system, and a company who'd admit they were running Linux.

Re: NetXpress agronaught May 19 2009, 04:52:39 UTC

This is the one:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_March_18/ai_54150719/

I still have the 'security blanket' at home from it.

Anthony will be missed. Still don't want to believe it.