Manuel Estrada Sainz

On May 9th, 2004, Manuel Estrada Sainz (ranty) and Andrés García (ErConde) were killed in a tragic car accident while returning from the Free Software conference held at Valencia, Spain.

Manuel Estrada Sainz was a kernel hacker and maintained a number of packages in Debian including the VisualOS educational tool, for which he was the lead developer as well. The Orinoco USB driver as well as the multi-purpose firmware loading support he developed for the Linux kernel are also provided in Debian.

Both Manuel Estrada Sainz and Andrés García will be missed.