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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.
Original Submission
(Score: 5, Informative) by novak on Friday June 19 2015, @03:13AM
On a serious note, if Linux is considered a niche OS globally (and it is)
This is just wrong. Linux is the standard for both servers and embedded OSs. Linux is niche on the desktop, but far from obscure overall.
novak
(Score: 3, Insightful) by gnuman on Friday June 19 2015, @04:36AM
Indeed. You have a cable or DSL router? That most likely runs Linux. You have a TV? My LG TV runs Linux. You have an Android phone? That's Linux. Google runs on what? Linux.
Calling Linux "niche" is like calling everything that isn't a PC "niche" market. If anything, PC is current a "niche" market when it comes to computing.