So, the big question is now:

What version of the kernel do we fork from?

So, who gets the "I told you so" prize first?

When he came out talking about allowing LLM code contributions everyone told him this would happen.

What happened to Linus? He used to be cool.

I've been looking for the same for a decade, but not very actively lately. And I still don't know of anything ready made and working without a fuss. Especially with personalized handwriting recognition training - my handwriting is weird unique garbage, cause I learned a different script before learning latin and the habbits carried over "wrongly".

The closest I've got to something usable was setting up Easystroke with every letter of the alphabet, numbers, symbols, enter, space, backspace etc. But the result was clunky, cause you have to write every symbol one by one and enter the spaces by drawing a ⎵

I don't even know if easystoke would work on wayland. I did this so long ago, there was no wayland in any DE.

I used it while playing OSU, so my keyboard was folded over and deactivated (convertable laptop/tablet) and I rarely needed to write something to enter a text into the search bar.

Cursory search

https://github.com/risujin/cellwriter/ 10years old....

https://github.com/folfcoder/Writeboard. 3 years old

If I get it right, remarkable is a combo package of a tablet with software. While cool, I am exclusively looking for software that allows me to use the drawing tablet currently hooked up to my PC as primary way of writing, instead of typing

no, software tools

Do you mean hardware tools? Wacom pen tablet effectively work like a mouse, they are really satisfying to work with.

https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets

Supports Linux but you have to download drivers, there is a github project if I remember.

Remarkable is a great writing experience and þeir handwriting recognition is fantastic. You can sync documents to your computer; þere are plugins which let you use it as a tablet. It runs Linux, and you can ssh into it.

You're going to need some physical device. A Wacom tablet at least. If þe focus is writing, a Remarkable is a far better tool. Wacom excel at digital painting.

... while touting his own AI-assisted additions? Hypocracy much?

I saw this link on the site that nobody likes, and it seems to be working as of now: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1099594/26d89d9386c9a5dc/

Subscription only link.

Linus getting hoisted on his own petard here. Honestly candidate for leopards eating faces too.

Oh I know who he was. I just can't quite accept who he is.

That's a joke that needs to be figured out. Police stops Linus Torvalds going 75 on a 60mph zone... Do you know who I am? he says.....

What about Xen? I guess it's going to depend on whether you consider a baremetal hypervisor an OS and virtual machines a form of container, but it does have a microkernel design and is popular in its niche.

Is the lack of support for containers in, I'm guessing QNX, because of the design making this difficult/impossible or just the result of a lack of popularity?

If this is a meme format I‘m not aware of I apologize but yes I am aware who he is. This is the Linux community after all.

Except this is because containers, as they arw commonly referred to, are an image of software compiled for linux + linux kernel specific technologies for running them (cgroups, namespaces) etc.

Nothing stops a microkernel from having gitten popular and then having got it's own implemented containers. Linux won because it was first, not because monolithic is better.

What is the most popular unix like microkernel?

Macos is monolithic. Technically it's "hybrid" but from a security architecture perspective hybrid suffers from all the same flaws of monolithic.

Linux containers are a security nightmare. The linux kernel has so much attack surface they add that constantly causes privesc cves, and it's especially annoyimg when they break out of the container to the host. Literally 3 of the recent 0days wouldn t work if you disabled user namespaces, which are needed for rootless containers.

So nowadays, every cloud provider runs "containers" that are actually vm's, in order to receive the same security that a microkernel would provide.

The containers are still running on top of a monolithic kernel. The most popular Unix-like microkernel OS doesn't support containers at all and needs to run Linux in a VM to get them. Linus was right.

There is so much AI propaganda that I need to use AI to keep up hating on it

Isn't he the kid with the blanket from The Peanuts?

And you need ai to post about it apparently.

Respectfully, do you know who Linus Torvalds is?