GoKawiilLWN Bids Farewell to Steve French
LWN published a tribute marking the passing of Steve French, a longtime contributor to the Linux community. The notice appears as a brief editorial post rather than a detailed report, with copyright information from Eklektix, Inc. accompanying it.
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Steve French was widely recognized for his work on Linux networking and filesystem code, including maintaining the SMB/CIFS support that underpins interoperability between Linux and Windows systems. His death represents the loss of a key contributor whose technical work has long supported enterprise and cross-platform compatibility in the Linux ecosystem.
- LWN published a short tribute noting the death of Steve French.
- French was a notable contributor to Linux, particularly in SMB/CIFS networking support.
- The community loses an engineer whose work enabled interoperability between Linux and Windows systems.
Source: lwn.net — Posted August, 2026-08-24
Published there as: “Mourning Steve French”
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