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Sad news. He did a lot for Debian and Ubuntu.

Wow. RIP. It is a name I hadn&#x27;t thought of in years. I was on Ubuntu Forums and some other Ubuntu communities as an observer&#x2F;power user, and I recall him being a source of knowledge and education. &quot;slangesek&quot;.45, so young. Thanks for being there for all of us re: Ubuntu!

RIP Steve Langasek and thank you for your contributions to Ubuntu.

Reading this while holding my new born and man does this hit you right in the gut.

Could be anything, sadly. Tteck, from Proxmox helper scripts recently died as well but did inform the GitHub community it was appendiceal cancer. Sadly he went quite quick too.I had a medical colleague who unexpectedly died at 33 after Christmas.Life is short. Hug your loved ones and let them know you love them everyday.

do your colonoscopies early. It’s not a fun thing to do, but it can save your life

According to his Mastodon, stage 4 colon cancer

Depends. AIDS (this is treatable these days, but I&#x27;m using it as an example) would imply a history of something he would want to keep secret from his conservative church. Of course I have no idea what his religion is, nor what he died of. If it is cancer - while rare at his age it happens and isn&#x27;t something I&#x27;d be embarrassed of but maybe he was.To some extent too, you don&#x27;t get to chose this, those who write your obituary do. Perhaps his wife (I have no idea if he was marred) and him have a disagreement on what is embarrassing and so even though he would have shared this she wanted it secret.

Neither any of the articles I looked up nor his obituaries name the illness so I assume he wanted that kept private. Probably not how I&#x27;d handle it, but to each their own.

45 years :(The article says illness, but which illness?

Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died