SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-218 hours agoIt seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.blog.linuxmint.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up128arrow-down1external-linkIt seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.blog.linuxmint.comSocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-218 hours agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?
minus-squareSocialistVibes01@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-218 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.
minus-squarebrandon@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·18 hours agoYeah, the ‘for reasons I don’t quite understand’ bit was intended slightly sarcastically.
minus-squareSocialistVibes01@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·18 hours agoIt’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.
I think it’s pretty obvious. Corpos are doing the EEE approach in the Linux ecosystem.
Yeah, the ‘for reasons I don’t quite understand’ bit was intended slightly sarcastically.
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.