I came across this breathlessly written article, the beginning of which I will reproduce below, so as to not give its author any more engagement:Title: Linux Memory Had One Maintainer for 26 Years. He Just Quit. Now What? Subtitle: One person held the code that runs every Android phone, cloud server, and supercomputer for 26 years. On April 21, he posted one message and then was silent. Last non-paywalled sentence: Two weeks later, at a developer summit in Zagreb, the memory management team tried to figure out how to replace him. They couldn’t. This sounded very alarmist so I did a quick search (note: I m not a Linux kernel expert or enthusiast by any measure). What I found seemed fairly tame:Andrew Mortan s transition announcement: https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260421094216.8dfe14a8c62f2420fa5aace1@linux-foundation.org/May 7 announcement of new maintainer: https://lwn.net/Articles/1070994/Can someone familiar with the matter confirm that I was right to dismiss the original article as alarmist engagement bait, or is there reason for worry?