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Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 after running out of excuses for further work
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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The kernel is totally safe. I don't see anything happening to it. Even if something were to happen to Linus (oh hell no, please live forever).
But that's not true for the projects that don't do headlines, everyone uses, and nobody knows. When you install software and it has like 200 MB dependencies, half of those are probably unmaintained.
Also, the term maintained is not clear. Is a project with.a single contributor and some commits this year maintained? How about tons of contributors in the past but only a release 2 years ago? And you have to differenciate the usages too, curl is dead if it does not get updated, some config parser, ls, or cat is maybe as stable as they can be.