We mummify him and put him on display like Stalin... Err no wait..... liberache.

We will switch to GNU/Hurd.

Then we will plug a USB device and remember that Hurd doesn't support that yet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation

Not much will change.

When linus dies we will pull a weekend at bernie's and make commits under his name then we will turn him into a human meat puppet.

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.

Clone him

Nothing. But I would love a microkernel approach like redoxOS. Monolithic kernel is such a bloat?

There are plenty of other tech youtubers to watch.

The top secret classified, for your eyes only papers will finally be revealed and we will find out that...
we have all been using BETAMAX this whole time, not Linux. O_o