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Alan Cox on How Linux Can Survive Without Linus
zigam writes "In another great episode of LUGRadio, kernel hacker Alan Cox talks about the kernel development process, DRM, and how Linux can survive without Linus. The usual disclaimer about British gits swearing and ranting about open source applies."
British gits swearing and ranting about open source applies
"You pint fisted wank stain!"
That's gold...
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Not listened to Lugradio before.
Too much nervous laughter for my tastes.
well at least the download's fast from the mirror I've chosen... :)
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I was surprised to hear them discussing desktop environments versus window managers. I thought everyone knew about that and had concluded that DEs suck ;)
Anyway, I just thought I'd mention WindowLab, a really fast and clever little WM. It might not have loads of features but I'd love to see some of it's ideas appear in other WMs or even DEs...
Many open source project are one-man project, so they could be heavily damage by the departure of eveane a single persone.
You remeber what happened whith Slackware when Patrick Volkerding was really sick? What would have happened if he had abandoned the maintainance of his distribution?
I think that the history of open source is far too short to answer these questions, but, sooner or later, all the pioneers of open source will retire.
I hope they will realize when the time will come to gradually drop their responsibilities and their influence. I also think that Richard Stallman is a good example, he has already started to retire from active development and even his leadership is becoming less practical and (even) more ideological.
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"Alan Cox talks about the kernel development process, DRM, and how Linux can survive without Linus"
Why, does he have something sinister planned?
What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit By A Bus?
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...the matter is what form will it take? Will it get dispersed like foamy effervescence on a freshly poured glass of Coca-Cola in the organic morass that Open Source is becoming, which could end up being called Open Sore if it goes south? Or will it become like Debian where we can come up with more distros than AOL has CDs to push but still not change the fact that the core is the same-old same-old?
I don't let this worry me. If it is worth surviving, those who use it will cause it to by demand because someone always is there to fulfill that demand. With the exception of my demand for free laptop night at the ballpark of course.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
which is the reason most individuals and small organizations that want to create their own Linux distro base it on Debian. Debian itself is not specialized, so it's optimal to use as a base for more specialized distributions like Knoppix and Mepis.
You need to bear in mind that now that our coal and steel industries are near non-existent, manufacturing exports are shafted by the high value of the pound and Britain is governed by a group of people for whom mediocrity is a desirable state, swearing and ranting is one of the few sports we British gits can compete in at a world class level.
That and our top class cynicism skills are the few things we have to comfort ourselves during our post imperial hangover.
Hmmmmmm..... Deep fried and look like Squirrel.