I'm afraid that glimmer is looking more and more like a mirage...
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/
His ignorance is, at this point, wholly wilful.
oh damn - reading that mail made me literally facepalm. instantly going ad-hominem and argueing like a 5th grader. 🙄
Oct 14, 2026, 9:57 AM@spitfire @McCovican What we need is a fork.
New Linux and Slop Linux need to be developed separately.
@yora @spitfire @McCovican There are other, under-resourced operating systems that are more worthy of the attention than this insecure C fossil.
Oct 14, 2026, 10:31 AM@landelare @spitfire @McCovican Sure. If we make all the Linux software run on it I'd be happy to use it.
Oct 14, 2026, 11:06 AM@yora @landelare @spitfire @McCovican
Redox OS @redox_os@icosahedron.websit (strong anti AI policy) already runs a ton, including a graphical desktop!
Oct 14, 2026, 3:10 PM@dngrs ooh thanks for the referral! Now I have a whole new OS to play around with!!!
@yora @landelare @spitfire @McCovican
i've been wondering when this would get mentioned. i wish i had the free time to work on such a project, but although i learned C in the early 90's i've never done any kernel work so even the thought of using what little free time i have sounds completely daunting.
Hasn't Linus always been like that?
@EFreethought that's true but I'll be honest I am not following his shenanigans that closely.
@McCovican @spitfire @davidgerard unfortunately, the trend more and more agentic AI contributions to the kernel and less and less humans vetted to make those AI contributions. Linux will stop being a community project, and it will be more like a few key maintainers and companies managing AI agents to mutate the code, "open source" only in the sense that, I guess, you can look at the code with your eyeballs if you want
@McCovican @spitfire @davidgerard
Wait is he arguing that deterministic and non-deterministic are the same thing?
@zedaardv yep - that's what he's doing. The mind boggles!
@spitfire
Damn! what a muppet.
@zedaardv @McCovican @spitfire @davidgerard
"And quite honestly, in my experience, the people I respect and call
intelligent are not the ones that shy away from using new and
interesting tools."
Being new does not make something interesting or useful.
Also: Kind of hard to "shy away" from something that is being forced on you.