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jbz
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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

☀️ OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust - Phoronix

「 The key takeaway is with the future IPS "pkg6" is porting the code over to Rust in the name of better performance than the C/Python implementation, better safety due to the Rust guarantees, modernizing the codebase, and API improvements 」

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenIndiana-Next-Gen-IPS

#openindiana #opensolaris #rust #opensource

OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust

OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of modernizing the Image Packaging System (IPS) package management solution
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@guenther@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@jbz is this the first distro/os that is using Rust for this sort of userspace system management tooling? (not counting stuff like Redox or PopOS's Cosmic desktop)

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