Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?
There will not be a Linus 2, but rather there will be a peaceful transfer of “power”.
Linus is not the Benevolent Dictator For Life of the Linux Kernel.
Linus has already stepped away from developing the Kernel. He did this after an incident to work on his professionalism & mannerisms towards people. Kernel development did not stop. Linus does not approve and merge every patch into the Kernel.
Rather it is more likely that the Lead Maintainer/Developer changes to Greg Kroah-Hartmon, and the project does not skip a beat.
Rest assured with something as important as the Linux Kernel: development will keep going.
*Greg Kroah-Hartman
DIGIMON!
But what happens when GKH and Linus are hit by a bus? The same bus. At the same time.
BSD fanatics driving the bus
Rest assured with something as important as the Linux Kernel: development will keep going.
Morgan freeman voice: but he was not rested or assured.
You’re right, I am not.
Nothing. But I would love a microkernel approach like redoxOS. Monolithic kernel is such a bloat?
Get on with it then.
Guy: I wish I had a flying car.
You: Invent one then.
My megabytes D=
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?
Um… I’m going to choose to phone a friend on this one…
Oh, …I have no friends who would know.
My instinct is you’re going to need to journalctl -b and see what modprobe and udev are up to.
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
This used to be the norm, not a weird thing that noone has thought of before. If you do this your kernel will be a lot smaller, boot faster, and be a bit more secure. Once you’re booted it won’t make any meaningful speed difference though.
It makes a HUGE difference in compile time. Which only matters if you’re building your own kernel anyway. It’s a solution for its own problem.
I think it’s a good learning experience though. There is genuinely a lot of stuff in there that you can easily, safely remove, and reading up on all the less obvious flags is fun.
Yep. When you have an 800mb HD and 16mb of EDO RAM, you only load what you need. The boot speed was unreal at the time compared to windows.
A number of candidates will create their own forks and there will be a long Game of Thrones style war between different factions. After couple of weeks each distro will choose the fork they will make the default one and people will split into warring factions. After that we will enter a nuclear winter style period lasting couple of years during which 90% of post on Lemmy will be just shitposting the rival forks. After a decade or two of backstabbing, dirty politics and other drama new dictator will be selected and all will be back to normal.
“The Lannisters send their commits”
he stabs him
So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.
We will switch to GNU/Hurd.
Then we will plug a USB device and remember that Hurd doesn’t support that yet.
There will be so many forks trying to continue a Kernel based on linux and i think a few will succeeded! We may use arch kernel or debian kernel in the future.
From what I understand Greg Kroah-Hartman would take over
Any talk or podcast with him is generally worth listening to.
At which point it becomes Gregus.
Gregux*
Or as someone else said, Grex
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.
I would switch to grex when that happens
We’re actually on the 10th Linus now, so the next one will be LinuXI
Stupid God-Emperor keeps ordering all these gholas
Don’t you Hayt it when that happens?
Still waiting for LinusXI Pro Max.
For me its LinuXIV the Sun Kernel
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
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!
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_oThere are plenty of other tech youtubers to watch.
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*
By then GNU/Hurd will be ready lmao
I’m looking to learn micro-kernel development to contribute to this dream of a project hehe. The GNU folks are doing a great job with Guix.
Thinking about switching to Guix at some point.
It looks like the most GNU of all the distros.
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.
That is what this post is about, IDK who this Torvalds guy is.
Fucking LMAO 💀
Peak Lemmy content
You fell for it
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’ll go back to HaikuOS, it should be ready by then. ReactOS will still be working on Win98 support.
That does sound almost kinda dope because that’s a lot of developers who could make Windows suck a lot less
Microsoft: we don’t do that here
The point of non-free licensed software is that you cannot improve it.
But what happens when Bill Gates is dead?!
Bill Gates will never die, he’ll transfer his consciousness to the 5G network and control us all through vaccines
“You see officer, it wasn’t me robbing that bank. Bill Gates did it!”
cheering in the streets? orgies?
We all become MacroHard
Return to monke
All the vaccine microchips activate and we all become Bill Gates. ʘ‿ʘ
Might be better than Being John Malkovich
What a blessed day.
MSed day to you
That would be one helluva evil plan.
I’ll move to TempleOS
Time to start teaching Holy-C at uni.
The year of the netbsd desktop is finally here.
what’s the bsd equivalent to arch
I think BSD is the BSD equivalent to arch.
Yeah isn’t Arch heavily inspired by the BSD way?
“I’m using netBSD btw…”
Is it still maintained ? I’d probably go with FreeBSD if I’m switching to BSD at all. It has ZFS out of the box and has support for nvidia’s non opensource driver. I have used it as a desktop OS for a good 3 months, it was pretty good (even though I couldn’t game on it)
OpenBSD, probably
- The year of Linux desktop finally arrives
- Linus dies
- Me: installs NetBSD and waits
I think I have a Windows ME CD lying around somewhere. Can I use that?
