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It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu. (blog.linuxmint.com)
submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev
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Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?

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[–] lama@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're only MIT licensed and not GPL so in that sense yeah

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

That is not ideal.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I couldn't imagine putting significant volunteer work into something that is not at least licensed under Apache, or more ideally at least LGPL.