Visor is a new open-source UEFI boot manager for Linux, designed to launch kernels, UKIs, Windows, and other EFI applications.

This looks interesting. It’s very new, so it will likely be a while before any OS would adopt it, but it definitely shows promise of a possible alternative to grub down the road

  • Axolotl@feddit.it
    10·
    11 hours ago

    The repo seems pretty legit to me, good readme, commits clearly written by a human, there is not coding agent in the contributors

    I didn’t check the code tho

    • istdaslol@feddit.org
      7·
      7 hours ago

      the repo was all uploaded at once, so there wouldnt be a agent as contributer. Since the initial there were 40 commits per day, mostly small changes. So my guess if it was made with an agent its done in a normal chat window and than copy pasted in the repo. Not the most elegant way but ideal to hide the use of AI. And since we dont have a trustworthy day 0 it can be either be done in a day or they could have been working on it for a year.

      It could be a rework of the rEFInd Boot Manager, wich they “credit” in their README

      • Axolotl@feddit.it
        2·
        3 hours ago

        The commit history is basically only

        • …
        • update config.h
        • update config.c
        • update main.c
        • update gui.c
        • …

        It just looks like they don’t know how to use git well and is making a commit for a single file instead of multiple ones