Simplemobiletools --> Fossify is pretty epic
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Do the Fossify versions already have new features? I'll still using Simple Mobile Tools from F-Droid, without ads, and am asking if it makes sense to download Fossify apps already
Mostly minor improvement, such as the fossify phone app grouping by date in the call history
No big changes yet afaik but its a good idea to switch anyways
What happened with simplemobiletools?
dev sold it to a shady company
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241#issuecomment-1837102917
Keep in mind that software doesn't have an expiry date. If a piece of software is unmaintained and doesn't have an active fork but it still fulfills your use case and doesn't have any major issues, there's no need to replace it. Some of the software I use hasn't seen any updates in five years but I still use it because it still works.
Edit: As an example, a lot of people still use WinDirStat even though the latest release 1.1.2 is now 17 years old.
I'd say that problems mostly come from the need to update dependencies in case of vulnerabilities being discovered. But not every software needs elevated privileges or can become a vector of attack, I guess
Isn't WizTree a lot faster?
I use windirstat almost monthly and have never heard of WizTree. Keeping this in mind for next time I use it.
Though at this point, maybe I should just commit honestly
What's a fork, I know what GitHub is and use it too. Just don't know what a fork is haha
It's basically like a copy of the original repository. But you can pull in and merge changes from the original, make a pull request for the original to pull your changes. Fork+pull request enables you to contribute to someone else's repository. Things like Chromium are in part forks of Safari, just that they diverged over time.
Clementine -> Strawberry :)
OpenOffice -> LibreOffice
Really, why? I don't known OpenOffice, so I'm just curious.
Oracle happened to OpenOffice.
Sun Microsystems bought Star Division, the original creators of StarOffice, which was proprietary. Sun open sourced OpenOffice, with StarOffice still available with proprietary add-ons. When Oracle bought up Sun, they first reduced resources to OpenOffice and then shut it down altogether when LibreOffice came along, with trademarks and such assigned to the Apache project.
The original OpenOffice is no longer in development. LibreOffice is an active fork of that.
And I believe it's being developed by some of the same people, too.
The unmaintained repo has a link in the readme pointing to the best fork
This is the problem, making the fork known to the userbase of the original software. When the Atom text editor was killed by Microsoft we decided to fork it as Pulsar but it was an uphill struggle to really get the word out. We got a massive boost when the youtuber Distrotube featured us in an episode and again with an itsfoss article but we still routinely find people who have been using Atom without knowing we even exist.
You found some more by commenting about it now.
But if the fork is on GitHub there are some ways to search for the most maintained forks, albeit not with the GitHub tools which is unfortunate
There's always the fork network graph, but it's not exactly easy to spot which forks are good, just the ones with the most recent commits
"PIN number"
vs.
"FOSS software"
Who'd win in a fight?
The Personal identification number number
Yt-dl - > yt-dlp
YT-DL is greater than YT-DLP?
Edit: Oh, it’s an arrow. Got it.
Gitea -> Forgejo, e.g.
What happened to gitea?
afaik it got bought by some company and people fear that there will be anti-user changes like with all the other open source projects that were bought by a company in recent years.
No company has bought gitea. They just made a commercial entity which can accept contracts for enterprise installations and make some hyper specific customisations not needed for normal users (like some specific mode of internal authentication) in those installations. So far Gitea has been great still.