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Arch Linux Breaks New Ground: Official Rust Init System Support Arrives (Removed)
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So I was interested to dig more into this..., but I wasn't able to find any other source that talked about this. Furthermore, while some digging suggests that the author is a real person, the text didn't score well on https://undetectable.ai/ . Do with that whatever you will*
FWIW, trying to install it within a distrobox container gave the following error:
error: target not found: rye-initWhich, AFAIK, suggests that the package is not found in the repo. Nor does going through https://archlinux.org/packages/ yield any results. At this point, my best best would be to spin up a VM and see if that makes a difference. But I'm not really in the mood at the moment.
Regardless, has somebody checked the package out for themselves? Or, have they seen discussions on it elsewhere?
checks
It's dated June 17, so it's not an April Fool's Day article.
EDIT: I was gonna say that Linux Journal has been around for a while, and I've seen material from them over the years, so they should be reputable. It does look like they were purchased a couple years ago...but by Slashdot, of all places.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Journal
I wouldn't expect Slashdot to be putting out incorrect material either.
shrugs
Maybe the site was compromised and someone decided to put up a joke article?
Yeah lol. There are definitely some oddities going on that I find hard to wrap my head around.
For example, last week this article was published on the same website and attributed to the same author. In the article, the author talks about the release of Fedora 41. The thing is, however, that Fedora 41 was released last October. Heck, Fedora 42 has been released for two months now. Like, why wouldn't they want to talk about Fedora 42 instead?
Hmm.
Maybe they're trying to do LLM-generated articles and are screwing up?
Problem is, some of the text doesn't seem like something that an AI would come up with. I mean, I can get minor errors, but describing an entire nonexistent init system without some kind of directive in that direction?
Someone else, i.e. the user called "notabot", had already made the following interesting observations:
ryeis software that actually exists and is found within the reposryeis written in rustryehas an init command;rye initI don't think it's too far-fetched to think that an LLM is aware of the above. But, it failed to understand what
ryeactually is and how its init command isn't competing with systemd.