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.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Friday June 19 2015, @12:29AM
Although the natural urge is to wait until the guy keels over dead before you begin developing succession plans, it probably would be possible to put many of the likely outcomes in motion well in advance.
For instance, why don't we get a jump on what will almost certainly happen and launch a dozen or two divergent forks of Linux right now?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @01:13AM
When the Prophet died, he didn't leave any plan in place for his succession.
His followers then split into 2 camps and it's been a violent mess ever since.
It seems like gregkh could assume the responsibilities that Torvalds now holds and, if he finds himself overloaded, shift some his old duties to someone else.
It doesn't look all that complicated.
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday June 19 2015, @03:00AM
Too late, there are at least that many distros already, and any one of them can claim to be the one true Fork, and the rules of GPL say you have to believe them. Every one of them!
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.