[HN Gopher] Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel and How It Is...
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       Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel and How It Is Tested (2008)
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       Author : ekianjo
       Score  : 80 points
       Date   : 2022-11-25 14:02 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | mycpuorg wrote:
       | Shameless Plug:
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       | I was very fortunate to have a conversation with him a few years
       | ago. We talked a bit about his journey and a bit about his hacks,
       | his setup, and of course a lot about Linux:
       | 
       | http://www.mycpu.org/interview-with-GKH/
        
       | mritzmann wrote:
       | For reference for HN users who don't know who this is:
       | 
       | > Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer. As of
       | April 2013 he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable
       | branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref,
       | kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O (with
       | Hans J. Koch), and TTY layer.
       | 
       | From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman
        
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         | sph wrote:
         | I think it's fair to say he's the number two guy in the kernel.
         | Is he younger than Linus? I could see him running the show when
         | Linus has enough and calls it a day.
        
           | stingraycharles wrote:
           | From what I understood, when Linus took his break a few years
           | back, this is exactly what happened.
        
         | up2isomorphism wrote:
         | He is the guy that corporate guys feel more "manageable"than
         | Linus.
         | 
         | Linus has been losing control on Linux directions long time
         | ago.
        
           | gregkh wrote:
           | Corporate guys "manage me"? Have you talked to any corporate
           | guys who have actually tried that and discussed the results
           | with them? :)
        
             | kleiba wrote:
             | What is probably meant is "find easier to deal with" (hence
             | the quotes around "manageable"). I'm only guessing, though
             | - but in any event, let's not forget that not everyone
             | around here is a native speaker of English! I can relate to
             | the fact that it's sometimes difficult to express exactly
             | what you have in mind.
        
             | armitron wrote:
             | I think that two fiascos that you've been a part of, kdbus
             | [1][2] and UMN [3], have conditioned some people to view
             | you in a certain light.
             | 
             | [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/649111/
             | 
             | [2] https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.2/04860
             | .html
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             | [3]
             | https://twitter.com/spendergrsec/status/1532715644734644228
        
           | gtirloni wrote:
           | _> Linus has been losing control on Linux directions long
           | time ago._
           | 
           | I'm interested :)
        
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