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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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How many Linux kernel developers does it take for the project to stall? (www.scannedinavian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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This is a sobering post that revisits the notion that given a project, how many developers have to be hit by a bus before it stalls.

According to the methodology explained in the article, in 2015 it took 57 developers for the Linux kernel to fail, now it appears that it takes 8.

That's not good.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the years as a system admin taught me that you can identify the influential contributors because they were the only people whose accounts were not immediately shut off when the management identified a bus factor.

and now i have a name for the phenomena; thank you.