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[–] 59 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I can finally stop calling it GNU/Linux.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's extremely unexpected.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The GNU utils weren't written by Canonical so they were doomed from the start.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not to worry, they'll ship 'em via snap.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because why? I can expect a very niche distro like Cachy do it but not a big project with a serious market share.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Canonical has a long history of doing wacky shit that nobody asked for though. Unity, upstart, snap, probably other things that I'm not thinking of

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Wait is this their way to break compatibility with old binaries so that you're forced to use snap?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is there any actual benefit ?

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Code written in Rust has been shown to have significantly fewer security vulnerabilities than code written in C. Distributions like Ubuntu ship a lot of security updates, so by switching to Rust-based utils, they can reduce their workload in the long run.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well the rust project is MIT licensed, so definitely not.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought MIT licensing was a good thing?? What am i missing??

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The success of FOSS can in large part be attributed to copyleft licenses like the GPL. Without the protections of copyleft clauses, software just gets exploited by large corporations and end users are locked out. For just one example, if GNU software had used MIT, the entire free router movement (i.e ddwrt, openwrt and co.) would probably not exist today.

    See: Free Software Foundation, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc..

    Edit: actually, I think by the time of this specific lawsuit, the sources for wrt54g were already released after community pressure, this article details the history a bit better.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    In large part it's a matter of opinions and different perspectives. A common consensus is libraries should be MIT and entire applications should be GPL. However, this is not held by all community members.

    Overall, Rust is easier to read and harder to fuck up, so there's one argument in favour if it, in terms of community engagement. For an example of this, compare ls.c by Apple, GNU, FreeBSd and OpenBSD.

    On the other hand, I should imagine most people simply install ripgrep and fd anyway.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Rust is good, rare Ubuntu W. Now stop with the forced use of snaps.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What about licences and FOSS?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Archlinux usually is a bit more reasonable. I don’t understand the forcing. Just makes me love it (archlinux) more!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Literally why? Not even criticizing rust but the GNU core utils are easily some of the most reliable and documented software tools ever written.

    Not to mention, looks like the rust core utils are MIT and not GPL.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    This is the Linux community's Sophie's choice.

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