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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Changes can come from anywhere. The Linux kernel itself doesn't use any central repository like Github, it's instead done via emailing patches that are eventually merged into the mainline kernel repository managed by Linus.

It is 100% decentralized.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

mainline kernel repository managed by Linus.

It is 100% decentralized.

But... How does that work? The code has to be stored somewhere...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How does that work? The code has to be stored somewhere…

The code is replicated by everyone who works on it, and on various public and private servers, so you might say it's stored everywhere.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Linus memorises it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds like it's centralized around Linus...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's just for the "last mile" where code gets packaged up into releases. There's still thousands of developers that have all of the code on their machines as well, it's just that their local repos aren't the ones that end up in the hands of end users.

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