Dave's Guitar [LWN.net]

Dave's Guitar

Posted Mar 6, 2026 17:58 UTC (Fri) by jch (guest, #51929)
Parent article: OpenWrt 25.12.0 released

"OpenWrt 25.12 is named Dave's Guitar to honor Dave Täht[1], who sadly passed away on April 1, 2025."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_T%C3%A4ht

Dave's Guitar

Posted Mar 10, 2026 10:16 UTC (Tue) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

When I think of bufferbloat I think of Dave first, yes there are for example Google engineers and other people working on OpenWRT and Jim Gettys who pointed it out in a big way and CoDel was developed by Van Jacobson and Kathleen Nichols and the development of fq_codel and CAKE, but Dave feels like the center of it where things come together and than fan out again.

And bufferbloat is hugely important for the Interrnet, a real issue that needs to be solved (and now basically is).