Monthly News – April 2026 – The Linux Mint Blog
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Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?

    • novafunc@discuss.tchncs.de
      211·
      20 hours ago

      The main problem is that it’s just not battle tested like GNU coreutils are. And Canonical has only tested this in one cycle, 25.10, before introducing it in an LTS. Would’ve made more sense to wait until 26.10.

      Other find problem with it being MIT licensed.

      • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14·
        19 hours ago

        The main problem is that it’s just not battle tested like GNU coreutils are.

        Mint is the last distro that would push something that isn’t battle tested. IIRC they haven’t even started working on Wayland support.

    • brandon@piefed.socialEnglish
      15·
      19 hours ago

      One issue with this is that uutils is licensed under the MIT license, instead of coreutils’ GPL license. In fact, for reasons I don’t quite understand many of these rust rewrites are licensed with the MIT license. This will contribute to long term erosion of the rights granted by the GPL to software projects and users.

      • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.mlOP
        15·
        19 hours ago

        In fact, for reasons I don’t quite understand many of these rust rewrites are licensed with the MIT license.

        I think it’s pretty obvious. Corpos are doing the EEE approach in the Linux ecosystem.

        • brandon@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          19 hours ago

          Yeah, the ‘for reasons I don’t quite understand’ bit was intended slightly sarcastically.

          • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.mlOP
            3·
            19 hours ago

            It’s bad that we’re in an all-time low percentage of politically minded Linux users, in another era Rust would never be close to the Linux kernel or would pose as a threat to GNU/GPL.

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
      10·
      20 hours ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2ZMvBT8W4

      4:25

      (sorry my third party youtube frontend can’t share timestamp links)

      tldw:

      • more CVEs than the old core utils that have been tested and in prod for over 30years
      • no feature parity, so existing stuff that uses them will suddenly misbehave, when certain flags are missing
      • different license, MIT instead of copyleft, so it’s more friendly for companies to use it for profit, while abusing the work of volunteer contributors