Linus Torvalds offers to build free guitar effects pedal

Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has offered to hand-build a guitar effects pedal for one lucky kernel contributor.

The odd offer appeared in his weekly state-of-the-kernel post, which on Sunday US time informed the Linux world that release candidate (rc) seven for version 6.13 of the Linux kernel “is slightly bigger than normal, but considering the timing, it's pretty much where I would have expected, and nothing really stands out.”

Torvalds doesn’t play guitar, but did the builds “because I enjoy the tinkering, and the guitar pedals actually do something and are the right kind of ‘not very complex, but not some 5-minute 555 LED blinking thing’.”

He enjoyed the experience and wants to build more pedals, so has decided to give one away to a random kernel developer – both as an act of generosity and to “check to see if anybody actually ever reads these weekly rc announcements of mine”.