Linux 4.17 Change To Allow RTCs To Live Beyond Their Intended Life

[mulenmar]

My guess: 100 Earth years from now, the only things still running Linux will be old IoT devices nobody bothered to upgrade, linked into botnets slowly mining Megabytecoin.

My hope: typical systems will be running seL4 kernel-based OSes with userspaces written in Rust.

My fear: typical systems will be running dataMinerOS 13.37 NSA-Interpol-neoKGB Edition, impossible to install anything else on due to UEFI non-disableable Secure Boot whatever-point-0. Assuming we're not all using slightly-radioactive abacuses by that point, of course. Both seem equally unlikely.

[starshipeleven]

My guess: 100 Earth years from now, the only things still running Linux will be old IoT devices nobody bothered to upgrade, linked into botnets slowly mining Megabytecoin.

I'm pretty sure consumer IoT won't last past 20 years (or less) due to planned obsolescence and cheap parts.

I've seen so much crap not surviving 3 years...

[mulenmar]

I'm pretty sure consumer IoT won't last past 20 years (or less) due to planned obsolescence and cheap parts.

I've seen so much crap not surviving 3 years...

I doubt it will last either, but I see no reason it won't be getting newly-manufactured and then installed on the orders of Pointy-Haired Bosses in 80 years.