The first one is by Linus? And his replies (at least the ones I read) are - to me- less aggressive then the rest of the mails in that chain

The second has one offensive remark:

> Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.

which I thought he admitted was out of line and - said sorry for. Or do I misremember? I admit once again, I'm still completely uninvolved and merely saw it play out on the internet.

If you read his replies downthread from that, Kent seems to be going through a lot of effort to not apologize, in any form, and prefers talking about how other people were mean to him.

I had high hopes for bcachefs. sigh