Brodie RobertsonI wonder if we're actually moving into a world where GNU/Linux is just a flat out wrong statement, Ubuntu is adopting uutils, I wouldn't be surprised if others decide to experiment with it
Here's a thought, if distros start widely adopting uutils or some other coreutils rewrite I wonder if we'll see the same contrarian complaints that pulseaudio and systemd dealt with and Wayland is dealing with now
malba@BrodieOnLinux uutils is trying to become a drop-in replacement for coreutils, so, if distros adopt it long enough from now, like a decade maybe, there might not be much difference in compatibility between them.
E: Not a lot if you expectations for compatibility are "does all things a user might reasonably observe the way that coreutils does, minus their bugs and plus some optional non-default features", I mean. They're probably already very compatible by less strict standards.
Maxi 12x 💉@malba @BrodieOnLinux The big catch with all those Rust rewrites is that they don’t chose the GPL but MIT or BSD. I’m really unhappy about this.
NiceMicro@frumble @malba @BrodieOnLinux
They did WHAT?!
very sad. Without Copyleft, what are we even doing 😢
@frumble If the GNU folks really wanted their ideas to win, they would have had to change themselves be more likeable to the average programmer. The average programmer isn't that different from the average person, and the average person thinks that Trump isn't that mean-spirited, so that was always going to be a difficult thing to accomplish.