Linux, finally for everyone
56 points by jjb
56 points by jjb
Wow.... this better be satire because I definitely don't like where this is going. I'm usually pro-AI but this is a next level of risk. Giving AI full control of production machines is incredibly dangerous. What happens if the AI hallucinates an issue and does rm -rf to fix it but messes up the variable expansion and deletes the home directory like Steam did (without AI) a while back? That code is certainly in the training data. I doubt even backups are fully safe, and the 99.7% agent uptime doesn't inspire confidence. I see they say that Solaris DevOps uses it; I don't think there's any chance anymore that I want to join that team. Unless there's a new incredibly safe and isolated way to do this that I'm missing, this seems wildly irresponsible to me.
It's satire. The download button calls a function startFakeDownload() that does nothing. IMO this is a great use of AI; the website is so elaborate that, just from clicking around, you would really think it's a proper company.
I'm 99.999% sure this is satire. Looking at the website, I'd say this is a vibecoded site that's mimicking an enterprise linux offering. I mean, the name says it all. The testimony from some anon HN user, the general tone, the self-proclaimed low availability...
The fact that the slightest trace of doubt still subsists is the sad part though.
The HN comment cannot be found within HN's search, which is usually pretty good. So that quote at least is 100% made up.
The demo for the AI agent is out of tokens, and you can buy a subscription for more. So, if you are out of tokens, you can't use your system, I guess. The website/UI is so well crafted it makes me worried about my job.
Excellent satire. Would rage again.
Edit: suggest here is already disabled but this needs satire urgently.
Great satire. The part about how their support team still has root access was buried but especially frustrating to read until it dawned on me that I had been got. The one question I didn't see addressed is "how does the window manager/DE work," since it makes numerous references to Chrome processes. I'd be curious how someone would make that work technically if this Linux distribution actually existed. If you can download executables with a web browser and run them from a file manager, I think you've got a shell.
There's truth in humor and I find it unnerving how many of us (me included) could not tell at first that this was satire. I don't think we're all that gullible, its just everything is absurd enough right now that it is plausible that someone would actually make this.
I think natural language interfaces are the way of the near future.
For linux I personally would like an offline documentation search like Google search now allows, even giving snippets for how to solve problems.
a natural language interface that could respond to voice would be a real boon for disabled users, but I would only accept such a thing with a local llm, and only if commandline access was also granted.
a natural language interface that could respond to voice would be a real boon for disabled users, but I would only accept such a thing with a local llm, and only if commandline access was also granted.
I can see the value in an offering like this. I detest that the recovery environment (which I assume would be a conventional shell) is only available to support engineers - that is an unacceptable risk for my needs.
I see that this is apparently satire, but this might become a very real product in the coming years, even if it's just a shell of some sort that allows an agentic LLM to operate the system on your behalf.
If this wasn't satire -
This seems like it will dumb people down and eventually the ai provider owns all the control and soul. It's like selling the soul to the devil and you are the one somehow paying (minus guitar skills)
Example send money to parent - need more tokens, emergency visa stuff - need more tokens.