Linus always praises email. He does no social media and most of his internet usage is just email is what I gather from his conversations and interviews.
There are a few thousand other developers, any one of them could start working on a replacement if it bothered them enough. Granted, a lot of them will be grey beards who are happy with mailing lists, but still, the overall friction hasn’t pushed them far enough over the edge to replace it.
Linus is also basically the most nerdy luddite to have ever existed. His opinions on a LOT of tech past the 90s is highly suspect.
Its both a upside and a downside. Its part of the reason the Linux kernel is so reliable. But it’s also been a repeating source of issues around him over the years to various degrees.
I have recurring thoughts that the kernel needs to undergo a clear fork. One branch continues on as it is today. A new branch agressively restricts scope, drops support for sub 0.1% market (in use, not last quarter’s sales) share hardware - and software. Focuses intensively on making that core functionality as reliable and secure as possible. New features? No thanks, plenty of existing features already.
I mean, seriously, what advances of the past 10 years do desktop users need? What can’t they wait 2-5 years for it to percolate down into the XLTS kernel? Mostly security, which should be mostly invisible to the users.
Linus always praises email. He does no social media and most of his internet usage is just email is what I gather from his conversations and interviews.
There are a few thousand other developers, any one of them could start working on a replacement if it bothered them enough. Granted, a lot of them will be grey beards who are happy with mailing lists, but still, the overall friction hasn’t pushed them far enough over the edge to replace it.
Linus is also basically the most nerdy luddite to have ever existed. His opinions on a LOT of tech past the 90s is highly suspect.
Its both a upside and a downside. Its part of the reason the Linux kernel is so reliable. But it’s also been a repeating source of issues around him over the years to various degrees.
I have recurring thoughts that the kernel needs to undergo a clear fork. One branch continues on as it is today. A new branch agressively restricts scope, drops support for sub 0.1% market (in use, not last quarter’s sales) share hardware - and software. Focuses intensively on making that core functionality as reliable and secure as possible. New features? No thanks, plenty of existing features already.
Almost like a Super-LTS version of the kernel?
I mean, seriously, what advances of the past 10 years do desktop users need? What can’t they wait 2-5 years for it to percolate down into the XLTS kernel? Mostly security, which should be mostly invisible to the users.