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points by breakingcups 3 days ago | 0 comments

Not sure how to feel about the "Let's fork ReactOS and vibecode hundreds of commits per day" approach.

At least the developer of LiberNT has sufficient knowledge to work with AI tools and he can review low level code. In many other forks, it's common to see people as mere meat proxies.

[–] jdboyd 3 days ago

What is the evidence of that? I ask, so that it can be identified on other projects.

[–] feldrim 3 days ago

The developer of LiberNT worked with ReactOS and he managed to contribute a lot. But regarding AI governance on the project, there were conflicts between the developer and the community. This caused the separate fork we have seen called LiberNT.

It's not inferred from the work but through weeks of communication. The only evidence would be the chat history of ReactOS Mattermost.

[–] qubex 3 days ago

[citation needed]

[–] tancop 3 days ago

Better than flooding upstream with it.

ReactOS is focused more on getting the basics right and reverse engineering obscure APIs, they deserve all the credit for that. But their kernel is NT 5.2 so it can't even support .NET apps. That's a deal breaker for any serious use. LibreNT is shooting for a serious alternative to modern Windows.

[–] officeplant 2 days ago

>LibreNT is shooting for a serious alternative to modern Windows.

I would say good luck combining "serious alternative" and sloperating systems, but then modern Windows is going off a cliff so maybe compared to Windows this is serious.

[–] zamalek 3 days ago

And I just got a PoW challenge when opening the site. Ironic.