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Re:Ask HN: GPT and Linux: Any projects trying to merge the two? by ftxbro on Monday May 08, 2023 @01:41PM (#35864587)
maybe their bar isn't as high as "impossible"
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Re:Ask HN: GPT and Linux: Any projects trying to merge the two? by smoldesu on Monday May 08, 2023 @01:48PM (#35864687)
You should see Linus Torvalds' bar. If you think I'm asking hardball questions, you're in for a treat.
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Re:Ask HN: GPT and Linux: Any projects trying to merge the two? by ftxbro on Monday May 08, 2023 @01:51PM (#35864751)
is his bar higher than "impossible"
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Re:Ask HN: GPT and Linux: Any projects trying to merge the two? by smoldesu on Monday May 08, 2023 @04:44PM (#35866821)
His bar is that he doesn't merge bad or redundant code. He's turned down major features for this before (eg. NTFS support) and would certainly do it again if someone suggested a 10,000 SLOC patch for LLM support that works fine in Ring 2.

Of course, nothing stops you from forking the kernel and doing the heavy lifting yourself. That's why I asked which features they need first, though.

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