Linus Torvalds, about AI, said that if people don’t like it they can fork it. Does anyone know any linux kernel forks that attempt this? Getting rid of “tainted” commits, even if that would mean going back in time a few years?
I don’t want to discuss the use of AI in the kernel. I am just curious and couldn’t really find any forks (only the linus quote pops up on search engines).
I’m in the way of getting it off the ground, though I still don’t know where to branch off from the main branch. First known AI slop contribution?
What should be the name? While “zilix” would be an obvious one, I want to avoid the ego issue Linus Torvalds have developed. Name it “Rockhopper” maybe? Or some other species of penguin? Leave the penguin branding in the past with Linus?
But I know that I’ll try to reach out to contributors of Linux who are dissatisfied with the current direction of the kernel. And that I will try to lobby some memory safe API into the kernel (SafePosix?), meaning null terminated strings will be the no longer preferred alternative, for backwards compatibility only, though some functions may still return a null terminated string for simplicity sake, but now alongside with a length indicator.
Would zilix not just be a reference to ziltoid the omniscient? Or is your username based on a part of your real name? Otherwise i dont see why you’d develop ego issues over a name that isn’t yours.
Technically “Linux” is also just a general reference to “Linus”, and not “Torvalds”, hence it’s not called “Torvalx”.
I was mostly joking, but I wasn’t specifically talking about a last name, not sure where you got that from.