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denysvitaliyesterday at 9:26 PM3 repliesview on HN

This.

Why would you waste 2 years to port Linux to an old / a device when you can literally do it in ~10 days and save many devices from turning into e-waste?

I really don't get their approach. Besides, Linux (and Linus) accepts and are doing AI contributions, so their argument makes no sense (since they're a Linux distro)


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HarlequinHairtoday at 8:15 AM

Correction:

Linux accepts AI assisted contribution. A human still has to review the output before submitting the code.

This is a big difference as it prevents raw genAI code to be part of the codebase.

pmOS might accept this in the future, as it is slowly becoming the standard.

officeplanttoday at 1:40 AM

>I really don't get their approach. Besides, Linux (and Linus) accepts and are doing AI contributions, so their argument makes no sense (since they're a Linux distro)

Sometimes the base has to fight the insanity coming from the top down.

realusernameyesterday at 9:34 PM

I would also add on top of those points that nobody will ever get paid for mainlining old phones, these are side projects by nature, meaning, not full time.

And since it's such a hard task without AI (and it's still not easy even with it), almost none will ever be mainlined just because of the size of the task

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