They finally set this in stone.
  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    82·
    9 hours ago

    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.

    • balsoft@lemmy.ml
      13·
      5 hours ago

      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.

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    251·
    10 hours ago

    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.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
        10·
        9 hours ago

        Depends on the beholder’s POV I guess; but yeah, even to a middle-aged fart like me 2018 is not “recent” anymore.

        • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
          13·
          8 hours ago

          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.

        • TheV2
          3·
          6 hours ago

          Yes, vice versa even to a young bird like me 2018 was just yesterday and the acquisition by Microsoft feels even more recent.

    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      2 hours ago

      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.

      • Linktank@lemmy.today
        220·
        5 hours ago

        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.

        • OR3X@lemmy.world
          31·
          2 hours ago

          Is it doody or are you just technologically challenged? Based on your double-down I think I might know the answer.