>In 2001, Dr. Nemeth retired to her sailboat and sailed the >world - a long long way from her CU-Boulder professorship. >In June 2013, she and the crew of the vintage yacht Niña >were lost in a huge storm in the Tasman Sea between New >Zealand and Australia. Sigh.
I knew Evi personally, we worked together on a couple projects at the Usenix Association. She was a great educator and a friendly caring person. We were all devastated when we got the news of lost at sea. P.S. Of course I used her book in the college courses I taught. On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 2:23 PM Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 01:38:32PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > I have /many/ verbose and vaguely-useful computer books on > > I pondered that. The fat books that transitioned me (*) from > Windoze to BSDI, then BSDI to Redhat Linux, were Evi Nemeth's > "Unix System Administration Handbook", editions 1 and 3. > > There is a 5th and probably final 2018 edition - I just > ordered a used copy, to torment those who dispose of my > books after I die. I wondered, what became of Evi Nemeth? > > In 2001, Dr. Nemeth retired to her sailboat and sailed the > world - a long long way from her CU-Boulder professorship. > In June 2013, she and the crew of the vintage yacht Niña > were lost in a huge storm in the Tasman Sea between New > Zealand and Australia. Sigh. > > Keith > > (*) Now I transition to Ubuntu from Redhat, another great > community monetized to ruin by "the suits". Ubuntu is > Debian in a tight skirt with red lipstick. When some bastard > figures out how to monetize and ruin Debian, I'm doomed. > > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com >
