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Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Lenin is mummified and inside a glass chamber.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] vsis@feddit.cl 16 points 1 year ago

We will switch to GNU/Hurd.

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

[–] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 18 points 1 year ago

you mean fork him under a new maintainer?

[–] sirico 9 points 1 year ago
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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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

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[–] ThePac@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of other tech youtubers to watch.

[–] Teon@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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