# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-volkerding
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:25:13.430Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-volkerding"
name: "Patrick Volkerding"
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description: "Patrick Volkerding is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. Volkerding is Slackware's \"Benevolent Dictator for Life\" (BDFL), and is also known informally as \"The Man\"."
tagline: "American software engineer"
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birthDate: "1966-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump