Who Controls Linux After Linus Torvalds Dies?

What is the bus factor of Linux, as in what happens to the project if the project founder and current leader were to suddenly die. Maybe this was a major concern a few years back but nowadays isn't as much of a concern.

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[segmentationviolator]

Bold of you to assume Lord Linus is a mortal.

[monsiu]

I just learned today that there is a business term called the bus factor that literally speaks on how a business will operate when a key memeber gets hit by a bus lol

[AdrianuX]

I hope Linus Torvalds consciousness will transform into a digital entity.

[dagothskitten]

after linus torvalds dies? this is exactly what the GNU/necromancer is for

[Psyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

The only ways linus and richard would die is because of a proprietary pacemaker and richard would rather die than use a proprietary pacemaker and linus would die because microsoft would hack into the hospital and shutdown his pacemaker but other than that they are immortal

[buuf]

If Linus, Greg and Shasha die, corporations still maintain kernel, because they need it to run servers.

[luizansounds]

eventually the project would get stable in 2 years max if we lost linus and greg for any reason at the same time, but considering thats unlikely if linus just disappeared greg would take over the main maintainer and sasha would step up

[yumekarisu]

Quick, we need to build a synthetic body so Linus can keep maintaining the kernel until the end of time

[Puzzlers]

One thing I would be worried about is the kernel fracturing, where multiple people take up the mantle, each with a slightly different kernel, and there will be several different official kernels. I'm not sure if that would cause issues, but it would be an annoyence if something worked on one "official" kernel and not another "official" kernel.

[LukeKendall-author]

Far more important than naming a successor would be to lay down ten commandments. Otherwise we'll end up with infiltration by people who love complexity, and reject the Unix philosophy that's so much a part of its DNA.

[YanDoroshenko]

5.19 -> 6.0: Memory leak fixed for Pentium II.
6.12.6 -> 6.12.7: Added Rust to the kernel, dropped the i386 support, fixed the Spectre and Meltdown without losing performance, added support of ZFS, added support of Apple M2.

[AllanSavolainen]

I am fairly sure he will write soon, during some weekend, an Tor-AI. A service that will take Linux kernel commits and merges them into the kernel if they are good enough and provide spicy comments on the mailing list for bad commits.

[fredericklebeault]

For me the 6.0 release was a big thing as a gamer on Linux with AMD hardware. The CPU idle bug was getting frustrating and now its fixed. Now when I start a game there is 100% chance my game will have the right performance. This issue was mostly noticeable on Rocket League. All and all I was waiting for this release and i'm super happy.

[CMDRSweeper]

Well, actually the part of the glue that keeps Linux on track is Linus' strong distaste towards "High speed low drag" developers like Lennart Poettering for an example, and the strong policy of "We never break userspace"
Without him being there to hold all the corporate sheeps in check and the newcomers such as the classic example of Mauro Carvalho Chehab from 2012.
Where he did try to argue with Linus that program X had a flaw because of a change he did in the kernel broke it, and Linus chews him out for it, but don't feel bad for Mauro... He did end up landing a nice job in Huawei afterwards.

[ChimeraX]

I pretty much think that if Linus and Greg disappeared Red Hat/IBM will have free reign and most likely will take over the project. They have the most power in the linux project, just next to Linus so pretty much they can strong arm their way in taking over it....

[pdmarino]

More concerned with Google creating their own Zircon kernel with Fuchsia OS and moving Android and Chrome OS off of Linux. That's a lot of day to day users eventually departing.

[AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV]

His conciousness is going to get forked once his body becomes unable to continue maintaining it.

[OcteractSG]

We can ask this question about a lot of software in general: E.g., KDE, Gnome, Arch Linux, Arco, Zorin, Fedora, Nobara, MX, Windows (David Plumber might have good commentary for that), OBS, Python, etc.

[autistadolinux]

Well, somewhat yes. Not the kernel, but the spirit.

[hansdampf]

I think you overestimate Linus current role in the kernel.
Back at the beginning Linus was the core of the project, but today that project has become way to big for a single person to know everything about that project.
Linus is still at the core but he is one maintainer of several core maintainers

I think his management and political role is way bigger than his role as a maintainer