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Comment by SubiculumCode

1 day ago

I'm going to ask a question. I could ask chatgpt. I could Google it. I am asking a question because it is human to do so.

Ubuntu's packaged rsync, is it Samba rsync? Why reimplement it?

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tredre3  19 hours ago

Ubuntu's rsync is samba rsync. It's not part of the samba project per se, but it is made by the same guy and the official url is https://rsync.samba.org/ so it's entirely fair to call it samba rsync in my opinion.

eichin  21 hours ago

it's tridge rsync; samba is another project by the same guy. (rsync was originally a PhD thesis...)

  • bombcar  13 hours ago

    tridge is mighty in the Linux world, he arguably greatly contributed to Linux as a server (via Samba to save on windows NT client user licenses), rsync, and IIRC reverse-engineering the bitlocker protocol thereby starting the gitstorm.