“And the backup right now is Greg KH, who is about the same age as we are and has even less hair.”

LOL’d

Replacing a giant. What a task.

But they are right, of course. Continuity is crucial, and if they succeed, it will be beneficial to all of us.

They should obviously replace him with an llm trained on all his emails and YT appearances.

/S

/🚮

I don't think anyone should replace Linus Torvalds.

As is the essence of open source, Linux as a whole should fall to the community. The problem though is, there will come a point of disagreements with how things could go.

As I've said before, once Linus is gone, we might well end up with splits at the kernel level rather than at the distro level. And we would be wise to avoid any one organisation's stock kernel, even if there are some very large organisations providing a lot of code for the kernel at present.

I can see a future where, say, GNOME, start producing their own kernels to support their vision of the Linux desktop from the ground up.

And it's all but certain that Canonical and Red Hat would be very interested in things going their (respective) way(s) when the time comes.

Core principals of Linus need to be written and followed.

Other than that, to me, the core rule of Linux is keep you code/app/service simple and atomic. Make sure that your widget talks/plays nicely with the OS components that it interacts with and that it can be easily swapped out for another analogue should you or all of the maintainers get hit by a bus.

Replace?

Clone him.

It will take time but the fun will simply be over when he’s gone

It’s clearly evident the next generations are incapable of proper stewardship of basically every good thing invented previously