• @expr@programming.dev
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    51 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.

    • Lka1988
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      21 month ago

      mainline kernel repository managed by Linus.

      It is 100% decentralized.

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

      • @expr@programming.dev
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        11 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.