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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[-] Defectus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

One does not simply maintain sudo (lotrmeme.jpg)

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

Not gonna lie, kinda blame systemd for this. The more utilities they swallow the more funding gets concentrated to the RedHat folks, and the less freedom you have to choose different software. They've certainly made some improvements in specific utilities, but there is an invisible cost of centralization

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[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today -5 points 2 months ago

Or get this: Linux is perfect as it is, so are current PC's.

Ship it pre-installed on shovelware PC's, you don't need better.

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