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Linus Torvalds jokingly ponders his successor as Linux boss
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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Let the community vote. Get them onboarded and functioning now. If they don't work out, try another.
I think the voting thing is a terrible idea
Greg KH will probably take over
Perhaps a ranked voting system? Succession methodologies rarely work any better, and lead to all kinds of nepotism.
We need nepotism in the Kernel, whomever takes over needs to be a long time developer with skills.
Elections are great for steering committees and such it not for a huge highly technical piece of software that powers the world
I agree. The democratization is already there, it's called forking.
This might be one of the few cases where democracy won't actually work very well. If for no other reason than that I don't think we can actually define the community in any useful way.
Technocracy/meritocracy in this case is better, so long as disaffected groups can fork the kernel rather than be forced to accept what that leadership decides (they can).