Linux is the name of a computer operating system kernel and a group of systems built on it, like Ubuntu or Mint. Linux is the basic infrastructure of the Internet. It’s important. A report ju…
  • auzy1@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Actually, I just discovered, the person who wrote this bullshit article is the first to submit it in the crosspost.

    And he’s banning people from the community who ask questions about it… Or point out it’s bad info lol, so, it seems obvious its more about attention than proper journalism

    !dgerard@awful.systems

    Why are you banning people who dispute your claims. Everyone should be downvoting the cross posted article with a passion. He’s running a dictatorship (basically seems like another “madthumbs”)

    For anyone who wants to see how comprehensive the oversight is on Kernel development: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html

    But yeah, patches don’t go straight to Linus or straight to master, and, it certainly doesn’t get approved automatically by an LLM or anything like that. If you’re lucky after the initial reviews, they almost certainly go to other testing trees first (and generally multiple). Then you also have staging branches, etc.