alt Hacker Newsi like to think it’s solely down to linus.
4.18 was the second half of 2018, around the time linus took some time away and went off doing therapy to work on his “communication issues”.
i like to think it’s solely down to linus.
4.18 was the second half of 2018, around the time linus took some time away and went off doing therapy to work on his “communication issues”.
It's not.
I can't reproduce the exact datapoints from the site using `git grep`, but most of it seems to be down to a single commit that removed repeated usage of fuck from one file: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a44d924c81d43ddffc9...