Torvalds Challenged the Haters to Fork Linux. Someone Said 'Hold My Beer'

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

Earlier this week, Linux project leader Linus Torvalds told AI haters to fork off, and invited anyone who didn't like his comments to fork the kernel. Well, here you go: linux-0.11-rs, a total reimplementation of the Linux kernel, done in langage de programmation du jour, Rust. No, this isn't really a response to the Emperor Penguin's challenge – for a start, it looks like it was done with AI – but the timing was irresistible. The new project is…

AI OK in Linux development, says Torvalds

Linus Torvalds has a complicated relationship with AI, seeing both its good and bad points. But his latest remarks on the usefulness of AI may have raised a few eyebrows in open-source circles. Just a few weeks after the Linux founder complained that a “continued flood” of AI-generated vulnerability reports had made the Linux kernel security mailing list “almost entirely unmanageable”, he has come to see the advantages of the technology. “Linux …

Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It

A chronological look at how Linux's creator went from "90% marketing" to telling AI critics to fork the kernel or walk away.

Linus Torvalds tells AI critics in the Linux kernel community to fork off

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has come out strongly in favor of AI tools in kernel development. "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects," he wrote on the kernel mailing list amid a debate over Sashiko, the Linux Foundation's AI-powered code review tool. Torvalds said he would "very loudly ignore" anyone who tries to talk others out of using it. The article Linus Torvalds tells AI critics in the Linux kernel community to fork off appeared firs…