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Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel

Posted by timothy on from the other-than-that-how-was-the-parade? dept.

jones_supa writes: Just like Sarah Sharp, Linux developer Matthew Garrett has gotten fed up with the unprofessional development culture surrounding the kernel. "I remember having to deal with interminable arguments over the naming of an interface because Linus has an undying hatred of BSD securelevel, or having my name forever associated with the deepthroating of Microsoft because Linus couldn't be bothered asking questions about the reasoning behind a design before trashing it," Garrett writes. He has chosen to go his own way, and has forked the Linux kernel and added patches that implement a BSD-style securelevel interface. Over time it is expected to pick up some of the power management code that Garrett is working on, and we shall see where it goes from there.

3 of 688 comments (clear)

  1. Can't take the heat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get out of the frying pan.

  2. If only someone would fork systemd by Viol8 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps bring back some useful features like handling stderr properly and maybe just being pointed at some master shell scripts at startup that do the rest of the work in a syntax people have understood for 40 years. Maybe name it "init". I like that name.

  3. Sarah Sharp .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sarah Sharp tried the passive aggressive, misandrist, SJW, bullshit with Linus and got her ass handed to her - zero credibility.