John R. Hall, a respected programmer, writer and Linux advocate, passed away on September 17 at age 24.

John studied computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology and was the author of Programming Linux Games [1], which he wrote at age 19 while interning with Loki Software. He later worked at Treyarch. His other interests included flying, gaming and music.

John chronicled his battle with cancer on his blog, War [2]. He and friends also formed an American Cancer Society Relay for Life team, Team Melanoma [3]. John's Web page is available here [4].