Comment on Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 after running out of excuses for further work
frezik@midwest.social 1 year agoThe kernel will figure something out. There are already lots of companies investing their own development into it. Would just need a new leader to emerge. Perhaps a rotating group of people who are responsible for managing a single release.
Tons of smaller but important projects don’t have this luxury, though.
PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 year ago
The kernel is totally safe. I don’t see anything happening to it. Even if something were to happen to Linus (oh hell no, please live forever).
But that’s not true for the projects that don’t do headlines, everyone uses, and nobody knows. When you install software and it has like 200 MB dependencies, half of those are probably unmaintained.
Also, the term maintained is not clear. Is a project with.a single contributor and some commits this year maintained? How about tons of contributors in the past but only a release 2 years ago? And you have to differenciate the usages too, curl is dead if it does not get updated, some config parser, ls, or cat is maybe as stable as they can be.