tl;dr:
If, for whatever reason, progress on the torvalds/linux.git repository is affected, someone has to get things moving within 72 hours. This person could either be the one who organized the most recent Maintainer Summit or the chair of the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board (TAB).
They will be tasked with pulling together the people who were invited to the last summit, along with members of the TAB.
It gets more complicated after that, but essentially that’s it.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure there already is more than one top maintainers for the kernel code anyhow.
So yeah, there’s no exact answer to “what happens to Linux after Torvalds”, it’s more of “who gets to add more maintainers to torvalds/linux.git if nobody merges things in there for 72 hours”. I suppose Linus is confident that the system of distributed maintainers is robust enough to survive his & gregkh’s incapacitation, and the only remaining point of failure is access to the central repo itself. I think he is underestimating the governance upheaval that would happen if he was to disappear, so I hope that he puts some more details about his views on future project governance in writing.
A thousand years from now there will be priests delivering sermons on the Book of Linus
Whats so special about 72 hours? It sounds like it would selfdestruct if nobody presses the dead man switch every 3 days?
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Is this another inside joke? I don’t get it.
Never seen Lost?
Oh, deep cut. I did not see that string as separate numbers. Thank you for the explanation.
Thanks for the tldr, it’s a simple fix but at least now we have some plan instead of no plan.
The project must go on!
He creates something, lets it grow and sets it free, Linux is pretty much everywhere and GitHub was recently purchased by Microslop, sorry Microsoft (keeps autocorrecting) and he has no intention to hold anything just for himself, he likes creating “campfires” around which like-minded people can gather and share ideas to oversimplify it.
Github =/= Git, if that was what you were trying to indicate.
and the kernel repo on github is a mirror, for those who don’t know
I thought they bought GitHub ages ago?
Depends on the beholder’s POV I guess; but yeah, even to a middle-aged fart like me 2018 is not “recent” anymore.
GitHub was founded in 2008 so nearly half its life it has been owned my MS. Yeah, “recent” doesn’t feel like a good fit here.
Yes, vice versa even to a young bird like me 2018 was just yesterday and the acquisition by Microsoft feels even more recent.
Maybe a third, actually good OS will finally appear?
Define what a good OS is, so we can all have a laugh.
Wrong space for that, buddy.
Y’all can disagree all you want. It’s still doody. The only reason people are flocking to it is because windows is even more shit.
Is it doody or are you just technologically challenged? Based on your double-down I think I might know the answer.
I’ve been using computers and various operating systems since the early 90s. Trying to use linux today and most things still seem to require three tutorials to do basic things like install files.
It’s just not easy to use. I could never recommend it to somebody who is new or even newer to computers.
If you’re using vague, borderline nonsensical phrases like “install files” when trying to find out how to do things that might go some way towards explaining it.
my grandma uses it just fine…
It is though? Is the bar so low that simply having to read, comprehend and follow instructions is disqualifying?
Maybe you need to abandon desktop computing and go purchase an iPad
You forgot having to be flexible enough to not have any particular workflow that works for you personally. Linux is great if you don’t need to use anything that doesn’t have a comparable equivalent.
Another reason not to like linux, the douchebag holier than though user base.
But didn’t you learn to use your your favourite OS at one point in your life?? How is that any different? Did you never learn a single thing from someone else?
You have to learn to ride a bike and drive a car. Are those crap vehicles too? It’s not “holier than thou,” when your argument is full of holes (hehe).
but you’re the one in here acting like a holier than thou douchebag
Good one.
- Windows
- mac
- linux
It has, yes
It already exists, it’s called OpenBSD.
i too love fish linux
That’s a pretty weird take given that OpenBSD is way behind Linux
Same issue there. What happens when Theo dies?
Since Linux is not an operating system, but the kernel, I think the guy means:
- Gentoo
- Arch Linux
But hey!
- I don’t like Debian, but it’s good, quite a lot of people like it
- Fedora is good either. I like it. People don’t like corporate influence, but hey, it’s good, isn’t it?
I’ve heard good things of Bazzite (a repacked Fedora, isn’t it?). Also, Pop_OS! looks promising too, especially with their recent Cosmic Desktop. Personally, I despise Mint (especially the Ubuntu version, lol, shit based on shit, sorry everyone) but many people like it, so it’s not as shitty as I believe it is. Em, Ubuntu … anyone uses it? I’ve seen folks using it as a server OS. I have no idea, perhaps that’s not incompetence, but there are use cases.
So yeah, still more than three. I’ve heard BSDs are quite good, but maybe not for everyone, especially as desktops. Yet, I’ve heard good things about them.
Alpine. Even on a desktop, people use it. And if you like SBCs, I think DietPi is a great project, Armbian is a great effort too.
So… I don’t know man. We have more than three, our issue is with the opposite, we have too many. Someone uses Slackware even. Others Linux from scratch. There are Nix people. I should have missed someone. But as I’ve been saying, we have too many already.
Sure, and maybe Microslop will one day put the acid down.
