From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu, The Pussy Distro, Is Going Rust
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:18:59 +0000
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:39:43 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

> 
> And that is exactly the reason why having a language that prevents
> incompetent people from writing broken code is what we need. Sadly,
> even incompetent people write code, and if they do that in C, security
> issues follow.
> 

The vast majority, if not all, of security "issues" apply only
to public facing server environments.  For essentially standalone
personal workstations these "issues" are entirely superfluous.

Yet GNU/Linux continues to be distributed as basically a 
on-size-fits-all product.  This is ridiculous.  My desktop
workstation is not a server and it will never experience
the "issues" that may plague servers.

It's well past time to fork.  There needs to be a GNU/Linux for servers
and a GNU/Linux for personal workstations.

I use LFS/Gentoo and I am able to configure things that are appropriate
for a workstation only.  I do not want to deal with the crap that
applies only to servers.  Other users, however, are not so fortunate.


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