Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Has Passed Away
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In Memory of Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
This post falls in the category of things I never thought nor wanted to write: we lost Daniel this week due to some probable heart failure.
I met Daniel in Red Hat's internal IRC #italy channel. It must have been around 2014-2015. We were both in support engineering at the time and we chatted about some kernel issues, but on the side we started chatting about music, sports, life and everything else.
At the time he was planning to move from Florianopolis to Italy to do his PhD. He was also quite keen to learn about the places his grandparents were from, namely the area around Belluno.
Once he moved to Italy we helped him out with a few bureaucratic hiccups he was stuck in and we slapped his name on his doorbell as he needed an initial address to get started:
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LWN ☛ RIP Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
We have just received the
sad news of the passing of Daniel Bristot de Oliveira at far too young
an age. He was a strong contributor to the core kernel and associated
realtime infrastructure, and always a joyful presence in person; he will be
deeply missed.
Update
Obituary:
In Memoriam – Daniel Bristot De Oliveira
More in LWN:
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Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
The academic and the GNU/Linux real-time and scheduling community mourns the premature death of Daniel Bristot de Oliveira. Daniel died at the age of 37 on Monday, June 24, 2024. Juri Lelli, Tommaso Cucinotta, Steve Rostedt, Kate Stewart, and Thomas Gleixner have come together to share their thoughts on his life and what he has left behind
Late coverage:
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Linux Plumbers Conference: In memory of Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
It comes with great sadness that on June 24th, 2024 we lost a great contributor to the GNU/Linux Plumbers Conference and the whole of GNU/Linux generally. Daniel Bristot de Oliveira passed away unexpectedly at the age of 37. Daniel has been an active participant of GNU/Linux Plumbers since 2017.
LWN again (more bits):
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Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
Daniel was a computer scientist with a focus on real-time systems and scheduling theory who is well recognized in the academic and the Linux kernel community. His truly outstanding ability to apply theoretical real-time concepts to real-world problems in the industry has been instrumental in driving the success of Linux and its adoption in real-time critical application spaces. While he pursued his ideas and visions with great perseverance, he was always open for discussion, criticism, and other people's ideas. His honesty, his modesty, and his wicked humor made it a pleasure to work with him. His wide interests outside of technology and his exceptional social skills made it easy to connect with him which resulted in many deep friendships reaching beyond the scope of work.
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Having Daniel at the ReTiS lab has been invaluable, as witnessed by various other collaborations that naturally developed while he was a PhD student, and later when he remained a Professional Affiliate at the lab. He helped mentor undergraduate and PhD students on various issues related to the performance and optimization of software running on Linux. He was also active in collaborating with various other research groups working on system-level topics, as witnessed by his co-authored papers.
Daniel started contributing to the development of the SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling policy by fixing all sorts of issues, demonstrating from the start a deep understanding of both the technical and theoretical details of the implementation. Not long after, he stepped up to the role of co-maintainer of the project, taking on a big portion of the recent work on new features for the scheduler.