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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13437386
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Based on the commit messages the last REAL update was 5 years ago.
Fastfetch!
Probably should be rewritten in a more secure language because it fetches important system data
nearly your entire system is written in C and you’re worried about a simple fetch program
Good for him. Cheers
“Have taken up farming.”
finally touching some grass
nasal congestion intensifies
Oh no. Anyway.
Pour one out for my homie
Does it have to be developed further? Neofetch looks like a finished product.
It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates
Well, it does its job for now. As for the security updates… Isn’t neofetch just a little fancy tool to display data from your system that is already exposed to any process on your distribution? What attack surface does it introduce?
Going by the releases, it didn’t need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed
Security wise, I think you’re right
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Is the #screenfetch a good alternative to #neofetch?
I don’t understand the fascination with a program that tells you what kind of system you’re using. I’m not trolling. Can someone enlighten me on its usefulness beyond “yep, that’s what my system looks like”?
I install it on servers and put it in my bash profile so it runs when I SSH in or open a new terminal tab. Mostly just as a safety thing. It’s basically a reminder to double check I’m on the correct machine/tab before I run any commands.
@unterzicht that IS it’s use. It is primarily used in show-off posts where people present their systems so that people in the replies can get a quick glance on what they’re running.
The reason this is big news is because
neofetchwas by far the biggest project of it’s kindIt’s a command that pulls a whole bunch of useful system information and sticks it on one page.
Really, the biggest use of it is for showing other people your system- especially showing off. It’s a staple of “look at my system” brag posts.
But to be generous, there are (small) legit use cases for it. If you manage a lot of machines, and you plausibly don’t know the basic system information for whatever you happen to be working on in this instant, it’s a program that will give you most of what you could want to know in a single command. Yes, 100% of the information could be retrieved just as easily using other standard commands, but having it in a single short command, outputting to a single overview page, formatted to be easily readable at a glance, is no bad thing.
It is for the situation “what even is this OS” that aren’t answered by uname -r
But since you need to know what OS this is to install this program with the package manager, it’s only useful if it was previously installed during the initial setup.
I guess its one of those program every OS should have installed. Like screen.
Neofetch is actually a benchmarking tool used by Arch Linux users which compete to show their high scores.
most popular fork - hyfetch
That’s so fetch!
Stop trying to make “fetch” happen.
Why not, it’s streets ahead
Does it not have a Fedora package or is it just not listed on the GitHub page?
pip install hyfetchI just found it weird that one of the most popular distros doesn’t have a package for it.
Wtf bro its an LGBTQ fork and not the same thing?
The readme states:
“This repo also serves as an updated version of the original neofetch since the upstream dylanaraps/neofetch doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore (as of Oct 27, 2023, the original repo hasn’t merged a pull request for almost 2 years). If you only want to use the updated neofetch without pride flags, you can use the neofetch script from this repo. To prevent command name conflict, I call it neowofetch :)”
It’s just aggressive propaganda. Ignore and report if necessary
EDIT: yea yea keep that downvotes coming. I don’t care anymore
Oh no, what will all the Arch users do?
Is there a neoneofetch?
Neofetch reloaded. followed by neofetch revolutions.
pfetch is nice
Lol archived! https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch
oh wow, only 4 days ago
