cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13437386
The author’s profile says this:
“Have taken up farming.”
finally touching some grass
Does it have to be developed further? Neofetch looks like a finished product.
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?
according to the Asahi guy, it doesn’t work correctly for ARM: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111018734178152229
I am utterly oblivious to how neofetch works, but it does seem to need updates to support newer tech.
It still had issues like handling 8-bit colors in ascii art incorrectly last I checked a few years back, with that pr already being a few years old then.
“Have taken up farming.”
Based on the commit messages the last REAL update was 5 years ago.
Does it not have a Fedora package or is it just not listed on the GitHub page?
I just found it weird that one of the most popular distros doesn’t have a package for it.
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 :)”
But its essentially an LGBTQ version and not a “maintained version of neofetch”
You know you can just ignore it and check alternatives, since there are a lot of forks, right?
