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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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[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

You can fork it. Are you gonna maintain your fork? Is your fork going to be adopted by the majority of distributions?

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 12 hours ago

Mine won't certainly, but by the magic of FOSS I'm sure someone will do it.

Oh look, someone already has...

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