Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/
In case push comes to shove: how complex would it be to move everything from Linux to a BSD kernel nowadays? Especially with many applications, entire desktop environments even, being bound by dependency to Systemd and therefore the Linux kernel?
@csolisr Not all BSD are equals. If you need Linux compatibility, FreeBSD offers better support with the linux subsystem, you can even run games (how good, depends). NetBSD could lack of the same support, OpenBSD haven't at all.
SystemD dependencies on BSD and SystemD-free distributions are made with patches, you can find Gnome and KDE here.
If you need the videoserver that isn't Wayland, adopt Xlibre that is keeping X11 alive, they patched and included a lot of improvements.
@csolisr Probably you could want pick GhostBSD or HelloSystem for a "desktop friendly" BSD distribution, because FreeBSD has no kind of integration with DEs and everything has to be set manually post-installation.
Also you could miss some helps you could be used on Linux: there is no Gparted, and BSD Gpart, while is easy to use, is a shell program without GUI, and no GUI manager as far I know for this task in general.
But really, if you can deal with this, is a clean system to use.
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> And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.
/me guzzling LNG like nobody's business, farting toxic fumes, and generating 60 dB of infrasounds: huh?
The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.
Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.
and this right here is why ‘open source’ has always been the bullshit version of ‘free software’.
@gamingonlinux Oh, Linus, Linus, Linus...
I mean, it's nothing new, but it's a bit of a painful read.
@ozzelot @gamingonlinux I think this is actually a new level of shitty from Linus. He was kind of trying to come across as a centrist before but now he's making it very clear he is a booster.
@gryphonmyers @gamingonlinux i've long perceived centrism as just helping the greater evil in perhaps a slower way (not just in ai)
