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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I have to stop clicking on the phoronix comment section. It's like a mini Twitter.

Still, Ubuntu should also ditch snap instead of hanging onto it just because they wrote it. It's the reason I don't recommend Ubuntu to friends anymore.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] HorseFD@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It’s the main reason many people avoid Ubuntu. They could achieve the same goal by shipping the Flatpak version of Firefox if they really don’t want to handle its packaging.

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One wonders how much of that is to remove copyleft

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wow, interesting thought.

I do use a few of the rust uutils notably cp -g (progress bar)

But now you make me think this change is for nefarious purposes.

[–] Flipper@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago

So how should such a system be called? Uutil/Linux?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Heard just this week that uutils apparently has 100% compatibility with the GNU coreutils (so more than musl aims for). That's good, if distros start shipping it then. It's not really something normal users would install themselves...

[–] mlflexer@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They don’t seem to have 100% pass of the tests, but I might be missing something?

Would love to take the jump, but I think I’ll wait until they pass all tests

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago

Oh, it said "By ~2026, it will be 100% compliant", which seems to just be an estimate based on the trend for how many tests they passed over the past years. My bad.

But yeah, probably still useful to get it onto real systems now to find any other remaining bugs.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Who maintains uutil? Presumably it's not GNU?

[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Two software engineers, one from Texas, the other from the Netherlands

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 13 points 3 days ago

They aren't allowed to eat meals prepared at the same restaurant or fly on the same plane, for continuity

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not part of uutils but I've been using sudo-rs on all of my NixOS systems for over a year, and it's been great.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's the difference from your normal sudo?

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.kya.moe 6 points 3 days ago

I can actually read the code

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not much, just says sudo-rs instead of sudo, and it's memory safe. I think there might be some missing features for really advanced multi-tenant setups, but for single user machines, it's the perfect successor to sudo.

nixos also supports giving the sudo binary a setuid flag that only allows members of the wheel group to use sudo, preventing any privilege escalation attacks from your services/servers.