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I wish there was an actual thriving business model like this -- just fixing most annoying bugs, for a price, of commonly used desktop software. Why proprietary software companies cannot or do not want to provide this service is over me. Perhaps I'm too much used to consulting.
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Kernel modules absolutely run in kernel space though. I’ve literally written kernel modules for high speed networking devices that have full access to the memory bus and enumerate pci devices. There’s no userspace or kernel space question here. It’s merely a matter of someone turning this into an easily installable kernel module
Kernel modules are not going to be "easily installable" anyway because their whole purpose is to poke at kernel-internal structures that will change all the time as the kernel evolves. With source code, you'll hopefully get notified if there is breakage - the module fails to build and you need to forward-port it to the current kernel.
As someone who actually writes drivers I'm a little frustrated at this whole thread with people claiming Linux drivers have to be distributed this way.
Kernel modules exist for a reason, literally to allow end users as easy and as forwards compatible of a way to install drivers as windows dll based drivers. This whole thread has a lot of know nothings chiming in if I'm blunt.
I remember going for the highest paying bounty in the Ethereum VM several years ago (I think it was ~$400 DAI/SAI). I did it because I wanted to force myself to learn the internals and to see for myself if the bounty system works. I think I spent a few weeks debugging and ended up splitting the bounty.
As long as the user-facing issues are disconnected from the technical issues, it's going to be hard to get the true value.
Where are LLMs now?
They're not useful for fixing things like this. Only frontend React.js
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Eh, I think you're underestimating some people perseverance. You generally only need multiple people for timely action, and it usually even slows you down (from the perspective of total hours spent) Like 2k bug bounty? I guarantee you some people would be willing to spend a lot of time for that. But yeah, people which are gainfully employed and have a decent salary - likely not.
People will have fun spending their free time on such projects. But it’s virtually impossible to turn it into “an actual thriving business model” that people can make a living on.
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People will have fun spending their free time on such projects. But it’s virtually impossible to turn it into “an actual thriving business model” that people can make a living on.
Why not? In much of the world, working on one of those a month would provide a comfortable living.
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Show us on the doll where they’re wrong.
I'm guessing it's the fact that linux has in-tree drivers, so you necessarily need to "patch the kernel" in order to write/fix a driver for a non-standard compliant device?