I guess he must be pretty damn old now since I'm pretty old now and he's older than me.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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This is my daily nightmare. How do you vet someone in skill, devotion and influence to make sure it doesn't all collapse?
worse come to worse there is forking. look at the bsd's.
I don't consider that the worst case, I consider that the secret weapon off FOSS, and what Linus would prefer to see. I don't think he wants Linux to be a kingdom who is afraid of what happens when their king dies. If the people aren't empowered to take the code, make it their own, and continue owning their devices, then they weren't in it for the freedom, just the freeloading.
GKH though
Agreed. If something happened, Greg would certainly take-over at least temporarily. Then the LKML would fight over succession like they fight over everything else. It would take too long, it would be dysfunctional, at least one person would quit the project but they would settle on a perfectly workable solution in the end. And it would evolve from there.
There is a whole hierarchy of ownership in the kernel. It is not entirely explicit. It can be quite fluid. It is not as dire as the article states.
As long as Lennart Poettering isn't anywhere near the line of succession lol.
I know he is a common punching bag but dunno what is so wrong about him
Oh jesus fucking christ take it back!
Thank you for a new anxiety disorder.
what did I miss?
They hate change
In fairness, to my understanding lenart pottering has many valid criticisms other than sysd... 😅
Like he's also kinda insufferable and has butt heads with linus repeatedly over whether it's okay to break userspace if I recall correctly 😅
Kerneld...I shudder at the thought.
Which is more horrifying? Kerneld or PulseLinux?
XLibnux
Nah he's working for Microsoft now.
Oh, that would explain a lot
A buch of llamas do drugs and wander around looking for the next incarnation
Greg KH will be fine.
I vote for Theo de Raadt to come in and clean house