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Linux 4.19-rc4 Released As Linus Temporarily Steps Away From Kernel Maintainership
Linux 4.19-rc4 is out today as the very latest weekly development test kernel for Linux 4.19. It's another fairly routine kernel update at this stage, but more shocking is that Linus Torvalds will be taking a temporary leave from kernel maintainership and Greg Kroah-Hartman will take over the rest of the Linux 4.19 cycle.
Following the recent decision to change the location of the Linux Kernel Summit after Torvalds accidentally booked his flights to the wrong dates/location, plus other discussions happening recently, Linus Torvalds is taking a temporary leave. "I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately," he wrote as part of today's 4.19-rc4 announcement.
So it begins.
Also at ZDNet.
The Linux kernel has adopted a new code of conduct. The link to the code of conduct is here.
It seems Linus Torvalds is also taking a break from being the top kernel maintainer.
The short story is Linus screwing up his scheduling to the Linux maintainers conference which was entirely rescheduled around his mistake. Then he was approached by people who are concerned about his blunt (or some consider rude) comments on the kernel dev mailing list.
I, personally, will miss Linus and I hope he gets things figured out.
Linux kernel firebrand Linus Torvalds has apologized for his explosive rants, and vowed to take a break from the open-source project and seek help.
In a mailing list message on Sunday, Torvalds admitted his "flippant attacks in emails" to fellow Linux programmers and project contributors "have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal ... I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry."
"I need to change some of my behavior," he added, "and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely."
Torvalds, who created the Linux operating system kernel in 1991 and has overseen its development ever since, also promised to take a breather from the project – like the sabbatical he took to create Git – and do some self-reflection to, well, be nicer to everyone.
Elon Musk was in the news recently for blowups, as well. Should technology professionals make stress management and interpersonal skills part of their professional regimen, for their own long-term personal and professional health?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @04:11PM (4 children)
the BSDs may be fine for some use cases but to pretend it's a viable replacement for all the things GNU+Linux can do is absurd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @10:19PM
That's right. It can't run systemd.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 17 2018, @10:23PM (2 children)
Citations might be in order. Or, at least list some of those things, and explain how they hurt BSD. The absurdity here, seems to be an ungrounded accusation that BSD's are inferior to Linux. Examining package lists, isn't just about everything available in Linux, also available in BSD?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @02:54AM (1 child)
Filesystems, multi-processing, full disk encryption, runs on arm and amd64, compatibility with stuff compiled for Linux (thinking of java here) -- thats what I would like to know if the BSDs have it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @09:48PM
FreeBSD has ZFS, DragonflyBSD has HAMMER/HAMMER2. Full disk encryption is easy on FreeBSD and not difficult at all on OpenBSD (neither is any harder than linux). Pretty much all BSD's run on amd64, and Free and Open run on some 32 bit arm boards, and pretty much all aarch64. FreeBSD has a linux compatability layer, OpenBSD doesn't anymore. Either of them can run linux in a VM. Hardware support is pretty good, Free having more than Open due to accepting blobs. Installation is very easy, setup no different than any other *NIX, just some different tools. Documentation is vastly superior, once you break yourself of the habit of googling first, and just start reading the manual you will find no difficulty. Performance-wise... FreeBSD is on par with linux, OpenBSD is still a little behind, but it's not really noticeable for desktop use.