Isn't this all distros? I've heard arguments that the only defining feature of a distro is the package manager, as you can install and configure software packages identically. E.g you can make Kali from Debian, just from some settings changes and installing some packages.
jasory
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Currently yes. I think they have some builds for desktop, but it's still early in development.
"If they had restricted it to only open-source local models"
Is this even remotely enforceable? Stylometry can pretty effectively determine between AI and human written text ( not sure about code specifically since those are much stricter languages), but can it tell the difference between models or even if the LLM was run locally? (almost certainly not in the latter case).
OS maintenance, like Debian, is tons of tedious busywork, most of it is quite literally just pulling from upstream packages, making sure there is no conflicts or certain types of labeled bugs, and that it meets the licencing and policy standards. So long as they are checking the code, I could see open-source projects benefiting substantially from LLM usage. The one thing that FOSS projects have is a lack of manpower.
I don't know how to break this to people but the vast majority of coding is boilerplate projects to solve trivial problems. Those jobs are disappearing (and have for years), what still exists is applying rigourous methods of computer science to solve specialised problems.
This whole thread seems to be unaware about Debian.... so I'll give an actual answer.
Debian only actually updates their software packages every 2 years, this is for stability purposes. However you still need to fix some severe bugs so about every 2-3 months Debian does point releases that are only updating for security fixes. This is one of them.
When Debian 14 actually releases it will upgrade nearly all of the packages that are in your base system.
Chatgpt just cribs from stack overflow, which in turn just cribs their answers from documentation. Once you figure that out, they both become surprisingly useless.
The bizarre thing is that they are only analysing something like 40 programs/library. You could reach the same conclusion clicking through their gitlab for a few minutes.
The translation rate is the actually interesting part.
"Game dev... Just force Rust into it"
What's wrong with Rust for game dev? It seems similar to C++, and C# which are the dominant languages.
I can see arguments that the current projects have poor approaches, but not that the language itself is ill-suited.
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Did they use LLMs? It's not mentioned in the article.