Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel
summary
Release 4.18 goes out after a steady 15‑year process with 418 RC, about 1500 contributors and roughly 100 maintainers, and this cycle removes more lines than it adds. Hardware bugs like Spectre/Meltdown force months of secrecy and painful cross‑company coordination. Maintainers require trust, responsiveness and clear commit messages more than flashy innovation. Forking and long‑lived embedded device kernels remain common problems when upstreaming work is too expensive.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12Welcome
- 1:58Whats the state of Linux
- 3:20Maintenance releases
- 4:23People are changing
- 5:31Boring is good
- 6:44CPU bugs
- 7:27Why kernel development
- 9:05Its getting better
- 10:02Trust in computers
- 11:55Being a maintainer
- 13:36Communication
- 15:27Technical conflict
- 17:14Politics
- 18:30Judging
- 20:32Good taste
- 22:35Participation
- 27:18Explanation
- 28:28Oneline changes
- 29:37Lack of surprise
- 31:50Sometimes the maintainer is wrong
- 34:10Make forking easy
- 35:51Dont be antagonistic
- 38:25A horrible model
- 41:33If you were to stop doing Linux
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