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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by usrbinbash on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:34AM (#47320940)
> Not sure how they can expect to make a viable full OS without massive use of LLMs, so this makes no sense.

Every single production OS, including the one you use right now, was made before LLMs even existed.

> What makes sense if that of course any LLM-generated code must be reviewed by a good programmer

The time of good programmers, especially ones working for free in their spare time on OSS projects, is a limited resource.

The ability to generate slop using LLMs, is effectively unlimited.

This discrepancy can only be resolved in one way: https://itsfoss.com/news/curl-ai-slop/

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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by lifis on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:42AM (#47321021)
There are only 4 successful general purpose production OSes (GNU/Linux, Android/Linux, Windows, OS X/iOS) and only one of those made by the open source community (GNU/Linux).

And a new OS needs to be significantly better than those to overcome the switching costs.

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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by usrbinbash on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:51AM (#47321078)
None of this counters the argument I made above :-)
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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by lifis on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:57AM (#47321144)
Just because they have been made before LLMs doesn't mean it can be done again, since there was just one success (GNU/Linux) and that success makes it much harder for new OSes since they need to better then it
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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by eqvinox on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:04AM (#47321209)
Well, by this logic there have been 0 successful OSes made with LLMs so far...
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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by usrbinbash on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:37AM (#47324727)
> Just because they have been made before LLMs doesn't mean it can be done again

Erm...no? That's exactly what that means.

Earth-Ovens haven't been in widespread use for hundreds of years. People can still use them to bake bread however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAJqGVxuJPo

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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by swiftcoder on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:08AM (#47321235)
> There are only 4 successful general purpose production OSes

Feel like you are using a very narrow definition of "success" here. Is BSD not successful? It is deployed on 10s of millions of routers/firewalls/etc in addition to being the ancestor of both modern MacOS and PlaystationOS...

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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by eschaton on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:28PM (#47331458)
What about IBM i and z/OS, and Stratus VOS, and Burroughs MCP, and Tandem GUARDIAN, and VxWorks and OS-9 and… These all not only still exist but run huge transaction volume (for the mainframe and minicomputer systems) and run a huge amount of embedded systems (for the embedded OSes).
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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @10:50AM (#47324049)
> And a new OS needs to be significantly better than those to overcome the switching costs.

Who cares if nobody switches to it as their daily driver? The goal you proposed was "viable", not "widely used". The former is perfectly possible without LLMs (as history has proved), and the latter is unrelated to how you choose to make the OS.

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