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    2 months 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.

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      2 months ago

      mainline kernel repository managed by Linus.

      It is 100% decentralized.

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