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posted by janrinok on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the benevolent-dictator-for-life dept.

El Reg reports

Just a few days after asking the Linux community to let him take a break, Linus Torvalds has said the project he kicked off 1991 can now get along without him. He was, characteristically, blunt in his recent interview with Bloomberg, saying Linux would survive his death.

"There is no concrete plan of action if I die," [...] "but that would have been a bigger deal 10 or 15 years ago. People would have panicked. Now I think they'd work everything out in a couple of months."

[...] "The technical know-how these days is less," Torvalds says. "It's more about being trusted and being available. Greg [Kroah-Hartman] is the obvious No. 2. He could take it up, and then there are a couple of other people."

Torvalds reiterated his intention to keep [unloading] f-bombs on fellow kernel devs, because his language happens in a "bigger context" and people are "better off" knowing how he feels.


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:53PM (#198013)

    Your brain is going to be donated to science.
    Kind of like we did to Einstein's brain...diced up into a jar for speculation and driven around the country.

    You know you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave?
    *que in Hotel California.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:21PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:21PM (#198028) Journal

    They will put in a nutrition solution like the one used for growing organs. Then hook it up directly using a neural chip. You can die but never disconnect. Because in Soviet-Russia the internet connects you..

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:36PM (#198034)

      What's missing here is a clip of Igor (Eye-gore, aka Marty Feldman) dropping the first jar and picking up the next jar he finds. [google.com]

      -- gewg_

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday June 19 2015, @02:54AM

      by frojack (1554) on Friday June 19 2015, @02:54AM (#198082) Journal

      Maybe we should make sure he has a post-demise source of intravenous Soylent?

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  • (Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Saturday June 20 2015, @03:08AM

    by el_oscuro (1711) on Saturday June 20 2015, @03:08AM (#198533)

    You mean, his head is going to be in one of those jars in Futurama? By then, will Linux run on Benders 6502?

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