Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel
Interviewat Open Source Summit India 2026 · on Tuesday, 2026-06-16· at 10:45· Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)·
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Linux 7.1 ships as steady incremental progress on a strict 9–10 week release cadence, with the merge window handled as roughly 200 merges in two weeks and a new plan to drop 486 SX floating‑point support to reduce maintenance burden. NTFS now has two competing maintainers, Git moves toward optional then required Rust while core work stays C, and LLMs provide many bug reports but need human vetting and suggested patches before they’re useful.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:27Kernel release highlights
- 3:13NTFS and hardware updates
- 6:26Merge window challenges
- 9:17Linus's role in kernel
- 11:08Code review process
- 15:46Git tools and workflow
- 18:09Rust in Git and kernel
- 21:22Rust limitations
- 22:46Rust and C interaction
- 24:31Kernel code quality
- 26:18AI in kernel development
- 30:56LLMs as bug finders
- 33:44LLMs daily usage
- 34:05LLMs finding long bugs
- 35:31Fun AI uses and closing
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