#linus-torvalds — Public Fediverse posts

Learn how the ptrace_may_access bug lets attackers steal root files like SSH keys and /etc/shadow. Find out if your Linux distro is patched.

Full details here: https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-ptrace-fd-theft-vulnerability-fix/

#FileDescriptorTheft #KernelPatch #ptrace_may_access #pidfd_getfd #SSHkeysign #LinusTorvalds #CVE202641651

Ennen QEditiä minulla muuten oli Hesulien yliopistossa muunneltu #MicroEMACS, jota joidenkin vahvistamattomien epämääräisten huhujen mukaan #LinusTorvalds yhä käyttäisi.

Happy 30th birthday to my dude Tux the penguin!

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-mascot-tux-the-penguin-hits-30-years-old-linus-torvalds-outlined-the-design-of-the-slightly-overweight-penguin-on-may-9-1996

Shoutout to @kat who gave me this particular Tux long ago.

#Tux #TuxThePenguin #Linux #LinusTorvalds

«Okay guys, take this» said Linus, go wild.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=028ef9c96e96197026887c0f092424679298aae8

#Linux #LinusTorvalds #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #LinuxKernel #Fedora #GNOME #KDE #Wayland #Debian #Ubuntu #Arch #LinuxMint #Bazzite

Linux 7.0 released as Linus Torvalds points to AI finding weird bugs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/linux-7/

Anybody knows the full interview with younger Linus Torvalds in red t-shirt?

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTMLfwHDWOD/

#linux #LinusTorvalds #Torvalds

Linus Torvalds Created Linux without AI. So you can also build great software without AI.

#Linux #Kernel #Linustorvalds

Linus Torvalds Created Linux without AI. So you can also build great software without AI.

#Linux #Kernel #Linustorvalds

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 7.0-rc1

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/linux-7-0-rc1/

RE: https://mastodon.online/@koteisaev/116088992185977221

I can only give the following advice since I don't have your device

• Check ALL sources which have reputable Open Source android replacement OS
• When you've found one that supports your brand of android, verify twice that your model is also supported, including it's submodel number
• make a backup if the device has important unsynced data
• expect a PITA of a detailed install procedure
• check all error messages and do what is written to the LETTER
• failing to do the above will result in a bricked device which may have cost you a couple to many of months of cash gathering!
• learn to work with the alternatives programs, just like Huawei users have learned to work with the flourishing Huawei OS which is FREE of GOOGLE tracking
• be patient
• be patient
• be patient

If your phone is not supported

Alas you're in the same boat as I am with my six android devices

solutions

• next time buy a Huawei phone with Harmony(?) OS free of googleor
• go the PITA route of finding a supported high to good performance android which is new in model for the open source OS you want.
• go the easy route and get a low performing android with OLD chipset and Linux distro for android pre installed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/harmonyos/
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/phones/

#OpenSource #ClosedSource #kernel #Torvalds #Linus #Linux #LinusTorvalds #technology #programming #networking #Your #Rights #ownership #alphabet #google #enshittification #fight #Android #AndroidInc

@koteisaev

Android dead on 01 September 2026 (09-01-2K26)

Unless you've been living under a rock at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, you know that google wants to close the Android Platform up, after having made sure that many hundreds of millions (actually more than (5 * 10↑ 9)) Androids are running globally.

Google wants to close up Android tighter that a father isolated his promiscuous daughter in the dark ages...

• Some bullets points

• Android development spawned in 2003 by Android, Inc.
• Android Inc fetches the Open Source Linux kernel and studies to use it for it's upcoming smart phone platform in 2003
• Google gobbled them up in 2005

Android was not google's idea!

Android was not google's idea!

Android was not google's idea!

• Android beta is released November 5, 2007

• Android stable v1.0 is released September 23, 2008

• Google made sure that in the years that followed they subtly started to make certain things hard to do, which were easy and open in the beginning

• Way in the beginning, those of you who had an android then remember how easy it was to install software on your phone

• When you install anything now that's Open Source playstore tells you that it's unsafe.

• Even when you open a PO3 / IMAP account on your android, google shows you the perfectly fine server certificate and tells you it's not good, forcing you to click advanced then yes to use an email account NOT sanctioned by google, in their gmail android program

• gmail android is a POS in comparison with the awsome MUTT OpenSource mail client

• installing KDE_Connect a magnificent program suite which makes your android communicate properly with any Linux or BSD server / client gives problems too and is even SABOTAGED by android comms & battery protocol

• the battery protocol constantly kills KDE_Connect making transfer and control a PITA

• the comms protocol drops packets of KDE_Connect making it look like the program fails horribly

• install KDE_Connect on an Open Source Android distro and you will see that the program suite not only works perfectly, it transfers files as fast as your phones tranceiver will pump them to your target phone or computer, running and Open Source Operating System

The beginning of the END

• Google starts with forcing programmers to submit a government issued ID for just writing software, released on the app store
• no Open Source programmer is crazy enough to do so, so you now need other means like FDroid & similar to install them, or go straight to their Codeberg or github pages to fetch them, making phone illiterates losing access to their beloved Open Source android programs
• Google annouces that it will block non sanctioned (Open Source) programs from installing after undisclosed ammount of time
• Google announces the date when it will hard block you, the propriator of your Androids to install software on your OWN FUCKING COMPUTER!!!*

WTF google! have you gone microSLOP?

We the people can stop Alphabet from this bullshit

• Those of us who live in the EU especially have a tremendous stopping power, to the BULLYING of Alphabet regardless of which EU country you live in

WHY?

• Google has a market of hundreds of millions of high android spending users there
• Loosing the EU all together will be a tremendous financial blow to google
• Remember that apple bowed to EU will and put USBC connectors on their hardware way before the deadline was put
• apple did that globally, because that makes logistical sense

• apple bowed to the EU because of financial greed, not the fine

• Alphabet is in a similar boat when google is stopped there to close the platform it's logistically easier to just remove the measures globally on their android platform

Rest of Terra

• The rest of us not stated in the below doc should do the following
• call our governments to do something by calling Ambassador / consul of US to give letter with grievances even if your country has less than 750.000 inhabitants, the protest matters, find your representatives and do it
• find alternative OS to run on your current and future androids

• DITCH android if and when the lockdown comes

• that means we the people gave up and lost

• android humanity is than fiucked

• no one of us wants to see that

FIGHT for your Android rights. The computer is your private posession!

Sending Universal Love and Universal Energy to all who read this doc

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Sources
mea
https://keepandroidopen.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
https://www.sci-tech-today.com/stats/android-phones-statistics/
https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-android-users-are-there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

#OpenSource #ClosedSource #kernel #Torvalds #Linus #Linux #LinusTorvalds #technology #programming #networking #Your #Rights #ownership #alphabet #google #enshittification #fight #Android #AndroidInc

LINUX PARA INICIANTES - Saiu do Windows? Entenda Wayland, X11 e os ambientes gráficos no Linux

Vindo do Windows e se deparou com termos como Wayland, X11 e ambiente gráfico no Linux?
Neste vídeo eu explico tudo do zero, de forma simples e visual.

Link: https://youtu.be/P9U3IR2HOlo

#ambientegrafico #wayland #xorg #windows #windows81 #windows8 #ambientedesktop #desktopenvironment #kde #kdeplasma #xfce #linustorvalds #linuxdistros #distroslinux #gnomelinux #linuxmint #linuxmintcinnamon #linux

Linux 6.19 arrives on Super Bowl Sunday, quietly stealing a little attention from the commercials

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/linux-6-19-super-bowl-sunday/

I enjoyed this one. It's also nice to see that Torvalds still is pragmatic, reasonable and with high integrity. #Linux #AI #LLM #linustorvalds #opensource

https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA

Wie der Linux‑Kernel seine Zukunft absichert!

Die Linux‑Kernel‑Community hat nach über 30 Jahren Projektgeschichte erstmals einen formalen Project Continuity Plan verabschiedet. Ziel dieses Dokuments ist es, verbindlich zu regeln, wie die technische Gesamtverantwortung für den Linux‑Kernel neu organisiert wird, falls der derzeitige Haupt‑Maintainer Linus Torvalds unerwartet ausfällt oder sich planmäßig aus seiner Rolle zurückzieht. Damit reagiert das Projekt auf ein bislang bestehendes strukturelles Risiko, da nahezu alle finalen Merge‑Entscheidungen zentral bei einer einzelnen Person liegen.

Der Continuity Plan verzichtet bewusst auf die Benennung eines festen Nachfolgers. Stattdessen definiert er einen prozessorientierten Ansatz zur Bestimmung der künftigen Projektleitung. Im Ereignisfall ist ein Organizer üblicherweise der Organisator des zuletzt abgehaltenen Linux Maintainer Summit, ersatzweise der Vorsitzende des Technical Advisory Board (TAB) der Linux Foundation verpflichtet, innerhalb von 72 Stunden ein Entscheidungsgremium einzuberufen. Dieses Gremium setzt sich aus den eingeladenen Teilnehmern des letzten Maintainer Summit sowie Mitgliedern des Technical Advisory Board zusammen.

Das einberufene Gremium hat einen Zeitraum von bis zu zwei Wochen, um über die zukünftige Struktur der Kernel‑Leitung zu beraten und eine Entscheidung herbeizuführen. Der Plan lässt dabei mehrere Organisationsmodelle ausdrücklich zu. Neben der Ernennung eines einzelnen neuen Haupt‑Maintainers sind auch kollektive Führungsmodelle oder alternative Governance Strukturen möglich. Die getroffene Entscheidung ist der Kernel‑Community anschließend transparent und öffentlich zu kommunizieren.

Mit diesem Verfahren soll insbesondere das sogenannte Bus‑Factor‑1‑Risiko reduziert werden, das sich aus der bisherigen Konzentration der finalen Verantwortung auf Linus Torvalds ergibt. Der Artikel weist darauf hin, dass in der aktuellen Maintainer‑Struktur Greg Kroah‑Hartman, langjähriger Maintainer der stabilen Kernel‑Releases, faktisch als naheliegender Kandidat gelten könnte. Der Continuity Plan vermeidet jedoch bewusst eine solche Festlegung, um im Bedarfsfall flexibel auf personelle, organisatorische und technische Rahmenbedingungen reagieren zu können.

Der Plan ist nicht als Hinweis auf einen unmittelbar bevorstehenden Führungswechsel zu verstehen. Linus Torvalds ist derzeit 56 Jahre alt, weiterhin aktiv als Haupt Maintainer tätig und hat nach Angaben des Artikels keine Absicht, sich in absehbarer Zeit aus dem Projekt zurückzuziehen. Vielmehr stellt der Project Continuity Plan eine präventive Maßnahme dar, die der langfristigen Stabilität eines zentralen Open‑Source‑Infrastrukturprojekts dient. Vor dem Hintergrund einer alternden Maintainer Basis und zunehmender Schwierigkeiten bei der Gewinnung neuer Kernel Maintainer schafft der Plan einen klar definierten Rahmen für den Umgang mit einem möglichen Führungsvakuum.

Quelle: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-community-project-continuity-plan-for-replacing-linus-torvalds/

#LinuxKernel #ProjectContinuityPlan
#OpenSource #KernelDevelopment
#LinuxCommunity #Maintainer
#Linux #TechnicalLeadership
#BusFactor #RiskManagement
#LinuxFoundation #MaintainerSummit
#TechnicalAdvisoryBoard
#TAB #LinusTorvalds
#GregKroahHartman
#KernelMaintainer

Mitä tapahtuu Linuxille Linus Torvaldsin jälkeen?

Nyt siirtymälle on vihdoin luotu selkeä, yksityiskohtainen suunnitelma.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/01/30/mita-tapahtuu-linuxille-linus-torvaldsin-jalkeen

#Linux #LinusTorvalds #oss #uutiset #avoinlahdekoodi #teknologia #tekniikka

La succession de Linus Torvalds se met en place, comme celle de Tim Cook http://dlvr.it/TQdhw2 #LinusTorvalds #TimCook