▲ 295 ▼ What happens when Linus dies/retires? (lemmy.nz) submitted 2 years ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/linux@lemmy.ml 156 comments fedilink hide all child comments Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?
[–] chunkyhairball@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago (1 child) "I'll Become the Strongest Adventurer in the Other World with My Maximum Level Open Source Operating System Development Skills." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) Title seems a little short... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] chunkyhairball@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) "Brave Hero from Finland, you've been struck by a bus and are going to reincarnate into--" "No I wasn't. That bus CHASED ME DOWN two alleys, over a fire hydrant, into, and out of a Starbucks. It did NOT hit me. You just summoned me here." "Err... anyway, this world needs a hero to--" "Write hardware drivers? A kernel module? Some inline assembly?" "Err... the demon lord... er... " "DID YOU EVEN MAIL THE LIST? Hah.... Okay. Does this world have logic gates of any kind? I need to get this knocked out as soon as possible. I've got the entirety of the bcachefs patchset to review before 6.7 is in release." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] luthis@lemmy.nz [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) I would so read that book. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago Dr Stone but for computers/software dev... Linus teaches them all best practices and then takes a 2 week hiatus from kernel dev to write a tool that defeats the demon lord. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) Title seems a little short... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] chunkyhairball@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) "Brave Hero from Finland, you've been struck by a bus and are going to reincarnate into--" "No I wasn't. That bus CHASED ME DOWN two alleys, over a fire hydrant, into, and out of a Starbucks. It did NOT hit me. You just summoned me here." "Err... anyway, this world needs a hero to--" "Write hardware drivers? A kernel module? Some inline assembly?" "Err... the demon lord... er... " "DID YOU EVEN MAIL THE LIST? Hah.... Okay. Does this world have logic gates of any kind? I need to get this knocked out as soon as possible. I've got the entirety of the bcachefs patchset to review before 6.7 is in release." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] luthis@lemmy.nz [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) I would so read that book. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago Dr Stone but for computers/software dev... Linus teaches them all best practices and then takes a 2 week hiatus from kernel dev to write a tool that defeats the demon lord. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chunkyhairball@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) "Brave Hero from Finland, you've been struck by a bus and are going to reincarnate into--" "No I wasn't. That bus CHASED ME DOWN two alleys, over a fire hydrant, into, and out of a Starbucks. It did NOT hit me. You just summoned me here." "Err... anyway, this world needs a hero to--" "Write hardware drivers? A kernel module? Some inline assembly?" "Err... the demon lord... er... " "DID YOU EVEN MAIL THE LIST? Hah.... Okay. Does this world have logic gates of any kind? I need to get this knocked out as soon as possible. I've got the entirety of the bcachefs patchset to review before 6.7 is in release." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] luthis@lemmy.nz [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) I would so read that book. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago Dr Stone but for computers/software dev... Linus teaches them all best practices and then takes a 2 week hiatus from kernel dev to write a tool that defeats the demon lord. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] luthis@lemmy.nz [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) I would so read that book. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago Dr Stone but for computers/software dev... Linus teaches them all best practices and then takes a 2 week hiatus from kernel dev to write a tool that defeats the demon lord. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago Dr Stone but for computers/software dev... Linus teaches them all best practices and then takes a 2 week hiatus from kernel dev to write a tool that defeats the demon lord. permalink fedilink source parent