--- title: Mourning Dan Williams | daily.dev description: Dan Williams, a longtime and prominent Linux kernel developer and member of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board, has passed away. The community is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-dan-williams-v5jkw3hqz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mourning Dan Williams | daily.dev og:description: Dan Williams, a longtime and prominent Linux kernel developer and member of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board, has passed away. The community is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-dan-williams-v5jkw3hqz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/V5jKW3hQZ.png og:image:alt: Mourning Dan Williams og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mourning Dan Williams **[LWN.net](https://daily.dev/sources/lwn)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dan Williams, a longtime and prominent Linux kernel developer and member of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board, has passed away. The community is mourning his loss, and a support effort has been organized for his family. He was remembered as a strong, thoughtful, and intelligent contributor to the kernel community. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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