Eric Schnoebelen was one of the many caretakers and supporters of not just the SDF Public Access UNIX System, but of the Texas Lunch Bunch / lonestar.org, USENIX and many others. In the DFW area Eric was known was the “News Kitty” and would gladly provide USENET news feeds and uplink posting via UUCP and later NNTP. He was an early supporter of NetBSD and pkgsrc and contributed directly to the hp300 port. The host name ‘egsner’, which was his main server for a number of years, got its name from the label on a VAX backup tape from college. While many were using dialup UUCP in the late 80s and early 90s, Eric had convinced Southwestern Bell to terminate a 56K frame relay (and later full T1) in his apartment.
NetBSD 9.0 is dedicated to the memory of Matthias Drochner, who passed away in August 2018 and Eric Schnoebelen, who passed away in March 2019.