alt Hacker NewsIf it is a new tool, why not call it something else than sudo?
The expectation with sudo is silent passwords.
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post-it • today at 5:58 PM
The expectation with sudo is that it escalates the privilege of the command I want to run. They don't rename Ubuntu every time they tweak the UI.
antisol • today at 2:08 PM
Because if you name it something different it's harder to do the "extinguish" step of "embrace, extend, extinguish".
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Do you also complain about GNU coreutils divergences from the original Unix utilities despite having the same names?