Linus Moves To OSDL, Will Work On Kernel Full-Time

worldwideweber writes "With the announcement of the release of the 2.5.72 version of the Linux kernel came the news that Linus Torvalds will be leaving Transmeta for OSDL to work on the linux kernel full-time. The email calls this a leave of absence for about one year." Update: 06/17 17:19 GMT by T : As many readers have pointed out, the length of Linus' leave is not actually specified in this email.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, I waited too long for 2.5.71, so here's a more timely 2.5.72 release.

It's extra timely largely because the hash list poisoning found some problems in the RPC code, making NFS break. Trond found and fixed the breakage, so 2.5.72 should work fine in an NFS environment too. Let's see if the list poisoning shows any other dodgy list users. Knock wood.

Also, Arnaldo has cleaned up a lot of the networking code to use the generic hash lists, instead of the old ad-hoc net-specific list walking code. That code has been tested pretty well, but please holler if you see something. Changelog for other details appended.

The other big news - well, for me personally, anyway - is that I've decided to take a leave-of-absense after 6+ years at Transmeta to actually work full-time on the kernel.

Transmeta has always been very good at letting me spend even an inordinate amount of time on Linux, but as a result I've been feeling a little guilty at just how little "real work" I got done lately. To fix that, I'll instead be working at OSDL, finally actually doing Linux as my main job.

[ I do not expect a huge amount of change as a result, testament to just /how/ freely Transmeta has let me do Linux work. My email address will change to "torvalds@osdl.org" effective July 1st, but everybody is trying to make the transfer as smooth as possible, so we'll make sure that there will be sufficient address overlap etc to not cause any problems ]

OSDL and Transmeta will have a joint official (read: "boring", like Slashdot. You should have seen the bio - that didn't make it - that I suggested for myself for it ;) press-release about this tomorrow morning, but I just wanted to say thanks to Transmeta. It has been a special place to work for, and hello to OSDL that I hope will be the same.

Snif. I'm actually all teary-eyed.

Linus

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[Thud457]

You do realize that www.snopes.com is just one big put-on, right?