Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?
We’re actually on the 10th Linus now, so the next one will be LinuXI
We’ve all agreed that when he dies it would be disrespectful to keep using Linux so we’ll pack it up and switch to Windows from them on.
I think I have a Windows ME CD lying around somewhere. Can I use that?
The year of the netbsd desktop is finally here.
what’s the bsd equivalent to arch
OpenBSD, probably
I think BSD is the BSD equivalent to arch.
“I’m using netBSD btw…”
But what happens when Bill Gates is dead?!
We all become MacroHard
By then GNU/Hurd will be ready lmao
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Think we all can agree that the only sensible choise would to convert to Tempel OS…
Only one problem: The dev is dead too
Nothing. But I would love a microkernel approach like redoxOS. Monolithic kernel is such a bloat?
Can’t you compile your own kernel with exactly the things you want? Would be a fun project to do
True. Funny idea I should totally do this. This is how you learn Linux. Like a kernel for exactly your hardware specs!
I have doubts you would see any performance increases, and if you change your hardware you’ll be in for a tough time but it would be a fun learning experience!
Thats a question I have. I have two laptops, a shitty amd ryzen thinkpad t495 and a fancy soon-to-be-corebooted Clevo NV41MZ with i7-11** cpu. Pretty crazy performance difference although the chassis and keyboard suck. But if I get the keyboard I want to simply swap drives, as there is nothing fancy, this should just work right?
Swapping CPU manufacturers entirely? I’d just start my kernel config fresh. Pull up the old one next to a new (default ) one and go down line by line. Odds are there are at most a few flags that would need to be changed, but it’s a good chance to reevaluate your previous decisions too.
I havent made any specific kernel changes, its just standard Fedora :D
From what I understand Greg Kroah-Hartman would take over
A quick search shows he’s actually two years older than Linus. Though I’m sure there’s plenty of young blood in the community by now.
Not that much, unfortunately.
The entire process of contributing is a huge pain and makes it rather hard for new people to join.
I think this is by design. I once contributed to
git, and it required putting a patch in the mailing list. It certainly forced you to be sure your code was spot on.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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor is a thing that any GOOD project or IT department considers. How many of your staff can you afford to lose if they all happen to be travelling in the same bus, on their way to eat at the same place for lunch when an asteroid inevitably punches through said bus and/or diner.
‘Hit by an asteroid’ is a little unrealistic. Sentenced to prison for 15 to Life has happened in the Open Source community at least once before. The project I linked to had a Bus Factor of about one. It’s now ‘old code using outdated APIs’ and is considered obsolete.
I’ve personally seen legal and criminal issues for a single individual cripple IT departments before, meaning their bus factor was also way too low. I’ve been on trips that have been rudely interrupted by screaming executives when I came down out of the mountains into cell range because I was the only bus factor left on certain systems. Natural disaster, such as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods are very serious existential threats to even the largest of organizations.
Since Linux seems to be a good project, I can’t imagine that the discussion hasn’t been had, in public or in private. Millions of individuals and dozens upon dozens of big corporations depend on Linux, Open source and otherwise. If the bus comes for core maintainers or project leaders we have at least SOME backup.
We need to consider truck-kun factor, where the developer get isekai-ed.
“I’ll Become the Strongest Adventurer in the Other World with My Maximum Level Open Source Operating System Development Skills.”
Title seems a little short…
“Brave Hero from Finland, you’ve been struck by a bus and are going to reincarnate into–”
“No I wasn’t. That bus CHASED ME DOWN two alleys, over a fire hydrant, into, and out of a Starbucks. It did NOT hit me. You just summoned me here.”
“Err… anyway, this world needs a hero to–”
“Write hardware drivers? A kernel module? Some inline assembly?”
"Err… the demon lord… er… "
“DID YOU EVEN MAIL THE LIST? Hah… Okay. Does this world have logic gates of any kind? I need to get this knocked out as soon as possible. I’ve got the entirety of the bcachefs patchset to review before 6.7 is in release.”
I would so read that book.
when an asteroid inevitably punches through said bus and/or diner.
Or, you know there is a crash? Lol
I’ve never heard it with the asteroid explanation. But thousands of people die every year in car crashes. Most in single occupant vehicles, but a bus can be involved too.
