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SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work
jones_supa writes "The sudden death of a solid-state drive in Linus Torvalds' main workstation has led to the work on the 3.12 Linux kernel being temporarily suspended. Torvalds has not been able to recover anything from the drive. Subsystem maintainers who have outstanding pull requests may need to re-submit their requests in the coming days. If the SSD isn't recoverable he will finish out the Linux 3.12 merge window from a laptop."
Yeah, but who takes control after he dies? Linux is already fragmented enough with all the distributions, I would hate to think what would happen when Linus dies or gets tired of programming, and then a bunch of companies/people decide to fork the kernel, because they all want to be in control of the "official" kernel.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
What's pretty funny is that if he ran OS X together with Time Machine he'd just pop in a new drive and restore from the backup that same day. He'd be running again in the time it took to put a new SSD in his machine.
Now I know there's plenty of Time Machine horror stories, but I'm just saying it would have been possible.
Note that I run Linux on all my servers, and 50% of my employer's desktops run on Linux. The rest runs on Mac.
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Is there a reason you refuse to tell us what WHS is and are so offensive and rude when other people asked you what you meant? I don't see a package named whs on either RedHat with yum or Debian with apt-get.
Again, you don't have to be such an ass.