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



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.


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


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.


samba is different topic




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