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

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

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