Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel
Interviewat Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 · 2025-12-08..12-10·
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Kernel 6.18 ships as the next LTS after a two week merge window followed by seven weeks of bug fixes in a nine week cadence. Merges average about 12,000 commits across a few hundred pull requests per window, with maintainers preferring centralized merges to catch conflicts early. Teams dogfood kernels daily, reject late Saturday pull requests, enforce a strict no regressions policy, and start piloting AI-driven code review tools that already find real bugs.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Keynote introduction
- 1:05Linux 6.18 highlights
- 5:40Kernel merge window
- 13:51Merge conflicts & reviews
- 15:38Peeves on submissions
- 19:54Mistakes & no-regression
- 20:36AI for kernel reviews
- 25:35AI for new developers
- 28:30Backward compatibility
- 34:56Closing remarks
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