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I've read a few things about the latest happenings with regards to Linus and the kernel, but I feel like I'm missing something here. Can someone summarize for me, or point me at a good summary?

Edit: Who is Greg KH and why is this significant and what is the relationship between Greg KH and Linus (and the community)?

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Regarding Linus, he spoke to the BBC and explained in his own words his position: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45664640

This ZDNet article summarizes some of the points Linus made, if you want the short version: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-answers-5-quest...

Haha, I found a possible Freudian slip in the article: "Code of Conflict (CoC)". Yes, it says "Conflict", which is unintentionally true, as it indeed caused more conflict than not. [1]

[1] Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20181011105751/https://www.bbc.c...

The Code of Conflict is a real thing, predating the current mess

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2015/03/on-the-linux-ke...

OK, I was wrong. But still, it reads just like a pun in light of recent events.

re: your edit --

>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, and TTY layer.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman is the stable kernel maintainer for quite some time. In addition to multiple subsystems. Probably the best guy to work with out of all the maintainers.

The idea is that Linus stepped away for a second to reconsider his style of responding on mailing list and which caused the Code of Conduct silliness.

Maybe this summary article on lwn.net <Code, conflict, and conduct> :https://lwn.net/Articles/765108/ and article <The kernel's code of conduct, one week later>: https://lwn.net/Articles/766699/

Greg KH is Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus's second in command and I think the maintainer of the stable branch. He's currently filling in for Linus as the overall kernel maintainer.

He's good people. Gives a shit about kernel quality. Otherwise Linus wouldn't have trusted him with such a high post.

Corporate money broke honest hacker. RIP Linux.

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