Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived
š¼ļø A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+ - dylanaraps/neofetch
The author's profile says this:
"Have taken up farming."
Finally it's official. I think it's a good move to make it an archived repository, so everyone knows for a fact this is not developed anymore. That means bugs or security issues are no longer actively searched and corrected. I wonder if this program will be taken out from distribution repositories now. My personal alternative is fastfetch .
Edit: ... oh, I didn't realize all of his repositories are now archived. Not only neofetch: https://github.com/dylanaraps?tab=repositories
Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he's doing now
Looking at the readme edit history: https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/
Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas. On hiatus. Have taken up farming. English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming.", but I have my guesses. means. Normally I don't interpret such a situation, but it doesn't look good. Most contributions of the software is 3 years old, and only a few readme and link updates recently are made alongside making everything archived.
Impressive, fastfetch even displays the battery%.
there should be some kind of notification system whenever something goes unmaintained. ive used unmaintained software for way too long before finding out theres some fork.
As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i'm fine with running abandoned ware.
If something stops working it's time to find out the alternatives.
Not every little tool needs weekly updates
As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, iām fine with running abandoned ware.
That means Windows XP is perfectly okay as abandon ware, becuase it makes no security related headlines. :p (just joking!)
This
Software which achieved no actual purpose discontinued. Open source community in tears.
Where's the new rust version?
https://crates.io/search?q=neofetch brings up 21 versions to choose from (21 are actual neofetch clones). There is also a library to help you write even more of them.
go get FastFetch
Why would this little bash script that does nothing extraordinary need constant updates? Some pieces of software might just be complete as they are.