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SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work

Posted by Soulskill on from the must-be-nvidia's-fault dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Eggs, Basket by CastrTroy · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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