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mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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 · 2 months ago
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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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    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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