Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?
Everyone is making jokes but the thought has occurred to me: Yes, we have an organisation in place that is ready to replace him. But, from what I understand, he IS the benevolent dictator, and he has used his power a few times to stop some changes that otherwise would be in the kernel right now. And I think that’s a good thing.
Greg K-H is the presumed successor and there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t do the same.
For a moment I thought this post was about the LTT host. And was like they could replace him with any of his doppelgangers in the group and no one will notice.
Fucking LMAO 💀
Peak Lemmy content
You fell for it
There are plenty of other tech youtubers to watch.
There shouldn’t be another Linus. The model of a single maintainer holding so much importance is fundamentally flawed, especially for a project with the size and importance of Linux. Responsibilities and decision making should be distributed among stakeholders and volunteers. It will take time to rebuild around that sort of structure.
I’ve also heard tell that the linux-kernel mailing list has become extremely toxic, especially to newcomers. A professor that I have a lot of respect for has stopped teaching his kernel drivers course because one of his students received death threats related to her involvement. If a change in the tenor doesn’t happen, less and less of the fresh blood that Linux needs will join.
Anyone good at insulting and ranting can make the cut. It should not be hard to train an AI on it.
I don’t care about Linux, but damn am I hoping Subsurface is in good hands.
You should care about Linux. The web depends upon it :)
And so does Subsurface :-p
We mummify him and put him on display like Stalin… Err no wait… liberache.
I was thinking a nice golden throne. More appropriate for a god-emperor.
Lenin is mummified and inside a glass chamber.
Yeah I know, I knew it as soon as I hit send but I dunno, once there’s an edit people get like weird about it.
Ed: although class chamber is accidentally perfect lol.
Linus is getting old and its time to pick his replacement.
And its you! Congratulations! I hope your ready
So I just click commit and it works? Wow, this is easy!
When he dies, I expect his family will be sad for a while and bury him.
If he retires, his family will be pretty happy for him.
Other people will keep doing Linux stuff.
When he dies, I expect his family will be sad for a while and bury him.
*merge conflict*
GNU will spring their plan into motion for world domination, and send anyone who has said Linux and not GNU/Linux to GNUlag
They will finally release HURD
The real HURD is the friends we made along the way.
deleted by creator
They’ll reveal that GNU was actually Unix all along.
That devious Joseph Stallman!
My brain autocorrected the surname the first read through
GNU is Now Unix
His firstborn son will take over as Linus II, as is tradition.
Hm, he and his wife are getting on in years. If they want a son, they should probably get on that right away.
He has decided it shall pass on to his eldest daughter, and he has already fulfilled his kingly duties. Long may she reign.
The far future: A man sits at a table, staring at a floating hologram display. He watches as an indecipherable block of alphanumeric characters wiggles and splits into two segments. He nods slowly.
He takes a breath and closes his eyes, broadcasting a message to everyone on duty that day.
“Merge the request. Tell Linus#3418 that Wayland is now the default display manager.”
For King and Kernel!
Clone him
I’m training a code and language model to write Linux kernel code and provide snarky comments, of course all based on Linus’s extensive commit history.
Our AI Überherr will be pleased.
is there a Linus 2?
There was but Carmen Ortiz took care of that little problem, if you know what I mean 😉
I didn’t know her role in it but that’s what I guessed, and I’m now sad to have been reminded of it
Any talk or podcast with him is generally worth listening to.
Not that much, unfortunately.
The entire process of contributing is a huge pain and makes it rather hard for new people to join.
And it will discourage new users from contributing. Thus, only boomers and corpos will contribute, and over time Linux becomes a de facto corporate owned committee.
I would switch to grex when that happens
At which point it becomes Gregus.
Gregux*
Or as someone else said, Grex
