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mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 个月前

Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust

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Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust

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mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 个月前
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In this video I discuss Ubuntu's decision to switch to using rust implementations of the core utilities (mkdir, ls, cat, etc...) and what it could mean for the broader Linux ecosystem. My merch is ...
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    That’s extremely unexpected.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      The GNU utils weren’t written by Canonical so they were doomed from the start.

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

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          Straight to jail.

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            I like snap, send me to camp.

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              Lol, I don’t hate snap, I also don’t need a sandboxed ls with a 30s startup time.

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          Oh god no

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          More likely they will make them dependent on snap so you can’t remove snap without breaking the system.

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      Why?

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        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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          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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            Unity was great, though. Ubuntu took a hit going back to customized gnome

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            Unity at least didn’t break anything, and you still had a choice in choosing desktop environment.

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