I have to stop clicking on the phoronix comment section. It’s like a mini Twitter.
Still, Ubuntu should also ditch snap instead of hanging onto it just because they wrote it. It’s the reason I don’t recommend Ubuntu to friends anymore.
So how should such a system be called? Uutil/Linux?
Who maintains uutil? Presumably it’s not GNU?
Two software engineers, one from Texas, the other from the Netherlands
Not part of uutils but I’ve been using sudo-rs on all of my NixOS systems for over a year, and it’s been great.
What’s the difference from your normal
sudo?I can actually read the code
Not much, just says sudo-rs instead of sudo, and it’s memory safe. I think there might be some missing features for really advanced multi-tenant setups, but for single user machines, it’s the perfect successor to sudo.
nixos also supports giving the sudo binary a setuid flag that only allows members of the wheel group to use sudo, preventing any privilege escalation attacks from your services/servers.
Heard just this week that uutils apparently has 100% compatibility with the GNU coreutils (so more than musl aims for). That’s good, if distros start shipping it then. It’s not really something normal users would install themselves…
They don’t seem to have 100% pass of the tests, but I might be missing something?
Would love to take the jump, but I think I’ll wait until they pass all tests
Oh, it said “By ~2026, it will be 100% compliant”, which seems to just be an estimate based on the trend for how many tests they passed over the past years. My bad.
But yeah, probably still useful to get it onto real systems now to find any other remaining bugs.