--- title: Mourning Steve French | daily.dev description: Steve French, longtime maintainer of the Linux kernel's SMB filesystem code, has passed away after health issues forced him to step down from the role just... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-steve-french-bwb1odler twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mourning Steve French | daily.dev og:description: Steve French, longtime maintainer of the Linux kernel's SMB filesystem code, has passed away after health issues forced him to step down from the role just... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-steve-french-bwb1odler og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bWb1odler.png og:image:alt: Mourning Steve French 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 Steve French **[LWN.net](https://daily.dev/sources/lwn)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Steve French, longtime maintainer of the Linux kernel's SMB filesystem code, has passed away after health issues forced him to step down from the role just days earlier. Fellow developer Jeremy Allison shared a tribute recalling their 20-year friendship and Steve's standing as a respected figure in the kernel community. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Mourning Dan Williams](https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-dan-williams-v5jkw3hqz) · LWN.net · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [In remembrance of Dan Williams](https://daily.dev/posts/in-remembrance-of-dan-williams-nft7b2wvo) · LWN.net · 0 upvotes · 1 comments - [Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta](https://daily.dev/posts/chris-mason-steps-down-as-btrfs-co-maintainer-departing-meta-p7cunpxxw) · Phoronix · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-steve-french-bwb1odler) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Mourning Steve French","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-steve-french-bwb1odler","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-steve-french-bwb1odler"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T13:41:16.502Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T13:41:54.766Z","description":"Steve French, longtime maintainer of the Linux kernel's SMB filesystem code, has passed away after health issues forced him to step down from the role just...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"LWN.net","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LWN.net","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--4jjE7GIK--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774960833/logos/lwn?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lwn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/mourning-steve-french-bwb1odler","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,linux","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"LWN.net","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lwn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Mourning Steve French"}]} ```