Linus Torvalds Interviewed on Stage at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2013

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Kernel releases run on a merge window cadence roughly every ten weeks, with 3.12 arriving in about a week, and the process prioritizes readiness over feature freezes so regressions are unacceptable; maintainership reliability — answering mail, not disappearing — decides whether code lands. 3.10 brings concrete KVM/QEMU improvements for virtualization, upstreaming remains the path to less work for vendors (good for Intel, harder for some Chinese OEMs), and the license stays GPLv2 as changing it is impractical.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 9:07What Keeps You Up at Night
3. 10:41Issues in the Kernel
4. 31:47Licensing of the Kernel
5. 39:15What Needs To Happen for You To Retire

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