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		abirch 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based co... "The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it." Linus Torvalds
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dfox 4 days ago | [–]

The problem there is that this is exactly the class of bug that does not exist in GNU coreutils because of philosophy of that project. Non-existence of such bugs proves that the impementation is not copied from AT&T code.

LtWorf 3 days ago | [–]

It's complicated to do it yourself when upstream won't accept your code.

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