What happens when Linus dies/retires?

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Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

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We need to consider truck-kun factor, where the developer get isekai-ed.

"I'll Become the Strongest Adventurer in the Other World with My Maximum Level Open Source Operating System Development Skills."

Title seems a little short...

"Brave Hero from Finland, you've been struck by a bus and are going to reincarnate into--"

"No I wasn't. That bus CHASED ME DOWN two alleys, over a fire hydrant, into, and out of a Starbucks. It did NOT hit me. You just summoned me here."

"Err... anyway, this world needs a hero to--"

"Write hardware drivers? A kernel module? Some inline assembly?"

"Err... the demon lord... er... "

"DID YOU EVEN MAIL THE LIST? Hah.... Okay. Does this world have logic gates of any kind? I need to get this knocked out as soon as possible. I've got the entirety of the bcachefs patchset to review before 6.7 is in release."

I would so read that book.

Dr Stone but for computers/software dev...

Linus teaches them all best practices and then takes a 2 week hiatus from kernel dev to write a tool that defeats the demon lord.