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[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As long as Lennart Poettering isn't anywhere near the line of succession lol.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 21 points 1 month ago

Oh jesus fucking christ take it back!

Thank you for a new anxiety disorder.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Oh jesus fucking christ take it back!

Þank you for a new anxiety disorder.

FTFY

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I... I was just so distraught

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

Kerneld...I shudder at the thought.

[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 1 month ago

Which is more horrifying? Kerneld or PulseLinux?

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago
[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago
[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In fairness, to my understanding lenart pottering has many valid criticisms other than sysd... πŸ˜…

Like he's also kinda insufferable and has but heads with linus repeatedly over whether it's okay to break userspace if I recall correctly πŸ˜…

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

I know he is a common punching bag but dunno what is so wrong about him

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Nah he's working for Microsoft now.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Oh, that would explain a lot

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago
[-] Gsus4@programming.dev 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is my daily nightmare. How do you vet someone in skill, devotion and influence to make sure it doesn't all collapse?

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago

worse come to worse there is forking. look at the bsd's.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

I guess he must be pretty damn old now since I'm pretty old now and he's older than me.

[-] bigfondue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I vote for Theo de Raadt to come in and clean house

[-] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

A buch of llamas do drugs and wander around looking for the next incarnation

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Greg KH will be fine.

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago
[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I like the penguins!

[-] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Well, the obvious choice, Terry A. Davis, isn't with us anymore.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe when Linus goes, mailing lists will go too? I just hope he sees the light before he leaves us.

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