Three Prevalent Themes
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Speculation about LLMs aiding driver/hardware support – Commenters wonder whether LLMs are secretly used to reverse‑engineer proprietary hardware and improve suspend/hibernate on Linux/*BSD.
“will LLMs actually help Linux and smaller OSes by accelerating reverse engineering hardware that doesn’t have open/good enough specs? Will we reach a point where hibernate works reliably on Linux?” — oblio
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OpenBSD’s versioning and release philosophy – Discussion clarifies that OpenBSD uses a fixed‑six‑month schedule where version numbers increase linearly, and every release may contain breaking changes.
“Note that OpenBSD is on 7.9 now and all releases are possible breaking changes. They release every six month and increment by 0.1. And after 0.9 they rollover to the next whole number.” — alberth
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Licensing compatibility of GPL‑covered code with BSD kernels – Contributors explain how MIT‑licensed DRM drivers can be used in OpenBSD, while the project maintains a strict “no GPL” policy in its kernel.
“OpenBSD has a strict 'no GPL' policy. It does not incorporate GPL code in the kernel, and it has slowly weeded out GPL code from userland. This is one reason why it builds with Clang instead of GCC.” — nanolith