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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
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NetBSD banned submitting "Tainted Code" in their commit guidelines...
https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html
May be time to dump Linux, Linus.
I've been thinking about doing just this, but I haven't seen any evidence that BSD is actually usable in real life yet.
Linux is actually good today, it's a viable alternative to the big corpos for virtually anybody, and the community is big enough to be sustainable. Also Steam has made Linux gaming a real thing.
If I could build a little pc to try BSD out on I would, I'd love for the competition to be there... But even a raspberry pi is like $500 today. It's insane. Fucking AI.
Hi! I use FreeBSD as a daily driver.
I browse the web, code, and game on it. Works great for me.
My current wishlist is for FreeBSD to have a more robust process supervision system (Dinit I'm looking at you) and for pkg to include some kind of declarative way to build.
It's great, I love it, join devil Linux.
Pretty much all the "necessary" things do work on BSD, Linux has turned into a gaming OS for me, like Windows had been before 11 was so bad I just couldn't do it anymore.
I pretty much use office stuff, and multimedia things, with games thrown in now that I've ditched Microsoft completely. Figure Linux could stay on a handheld, like a Steam Deck, and consider it a toy like I had WIndows from 7 to 10 when it was at least functional. There is Linux emulation on BSD, too, and I see a setup guide to run the native Linux Kodi port on it.
Damn it... Ok I'll think about it. I'm not ready to wipe my laptop for it but maybe I can find an alternative.
Still looks like they allow it as long as it gets approval by the core team. Not saying I agree with that choice, but there's still a very real chance LLM-generated code makes it into NetBSD.