Remembering Seth Nickell
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Remembering Seth Nickell
[Posted April 28, 2026 by jzb]
LWN has received the sad news that Seth Nickell passed away, on April 16, from his father, Eric Nickell:
> Many of you knew Seth from his work in the GNOME Usability Project, but his roots in that community trace back to his high school years. As a father of a high school junior, I remember being terrified when he flashed the hard drive of a computer he purchased for himself with this weird "Linux" thing. And I was a bit awed by the college application essay he wrote about open source and Linus Torvalds. > > > It was his interest in packet radio that drew him into working with the Linux AX.25 HOWTO as a high schooler, and from there to his focus on making the Linux desktop work for everyone.
The family plans to share news of a memorial at a later time. He will be deeply missed.
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Sad coincidence
Posted Apr 28, 2026 19:15 UTC (Tue) by **alison** (subscriber, #63752) [Link]
> It was his interest in packet radio that drew him into working with the Linux AX.25 HOWTO as a high schooler,
Earlier this week we learned that 7.1 will remove AX.25: https://lwn.net/Articles/1067785/
Avoiding end-user alienation is, of course, the main reason to retain poorly maintained features. Nonetheless, in these challenging times, it's easy to understand why they must go.
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