Michael A. Murphy :system76:

System76 (:system76:) engineer and Pop!_OS (:popos:) maintainer working on COSMIC: a next generation desktop environment in Rust. Occasionally provides support on https://chat.pop-os.org and https://pop_os.reddit.com. Comments will lean towards #PopOS, #RustLang, #CosmicDesktop, #Linux, and #RedoxOS.

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2025-10-17 07:29:16 UTC

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@nprofile…t4vp If you want a kanban board, https://kan.bn/ is easy to set up.
I tried TaskTrove.io first, but I couldn't figure out how to fix the file permission errors. May try it again in a couple months.
I also tried Colanode, but it was also unstable with an interface that was not intuitive at all. (It also requires HTTPS so make sure to set up self-signed TLS certs with Ferron as a reverse proxy and set up DNS to get a local domain zone).

2025-03-16 18:27:32 UTC

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@nprofile…tfka No, abandonment is the only issue. Affecting all software regardless of license. I've already watched 10 years worth of software development in Rust with libraries using the MIT license. I can't think of any instance where something was closed and erased, but plenty where a crate was abandoned and then forked with a new maintainer. The Crates repository archives every release of a crate uploaded to it, and you can't remove something once it's published.

2025-03-16 17:14:15 UTC

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@nprofile…tfka How much contributions do hardware vendors give to LLVM and Mesa? They, too, are MIT-licensed. How much contributions do software vendors give to LLVM and Rust? Also MIT-licensed. If there's a will, there's a way, but we forget that the open source movement already won the battle, and we have the better platform that everyone wants to be a part of. So let's focus on that instead of trying to tear down people for using a MIT license.

2025-03-16 16:52:46 UTC

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@nprofile…tfka Closing a copy of software does not close the software itself. Ubuntu and Fedora aren't going to suddenly start shipping a closed source coreutils suite just because it exists, are they? Are you suddenly going to use one because that option becomes available? People will use and contribute to uutils regardless.
As for hardware manufacturers, I can't think of a single instance where they shipped a closed source coreutils. They either ship busybox, BSD coreutils, or nothing at all.

2025-03-16 15:40:51 UTC

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@nprofile…tfka You need to read the whole comment chain. Though even as I said in this one alone, uutils is not the only implementation of coreutils. BSD Coreutils and many others already existed long before Rust existed. Equally easy to clone.
You cannot close an open source project. The open source license ensures that it is open source for all perpetuity. You cannot force the Rust uutils to close, nor can you force any forks of that repository to close.

2025-02-05 19:59:49 UTC

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@nprofile…hnka I doubt there would be because it's not a bug in Rust, but glibc. Unfortunately it's been there for 20 years and can affect any program in any language.
GNOME used this workaround in Nautilus in 2009: https://github.com/GNOME/nautilus/commit/fbe7bdd104f478c4648e7937f47391be59f31183
GIMP also added this 20 years ago: https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/blob/master/app/main.c#L1054

2024-06-07 05:24:02 UTC

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@npub1qhg…8mhf
> could not find system library 'fontconfig'
You have libfontconfig-dev?