Aral Balkan<p>🥳 New Kitten Release</p><p>To GNU tar or not to GNU tar?</p><p>• Installing Kitten on Linux should no longer display a screenful of gibberish from the tar command.</p><p>You see, macOS, being special, includes BSD tar, not GNU tar, and adds a bunch of Mac-specific metadata and extended header keywords to archives that GNU tar on Linux machines then chokes on and regurgitates onto your screen as warnings.</p><p>With this release, Kitten’s packaging script expects GNU tar to be available on macOS and uses that instead of BSD tar.</p><p>The latest release of Kitten now installs without any warnings on Linux (at least on my Fedora Silverblue box).</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p><a href="https://kitten.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">kitten.small-web.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Kitten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kitten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/KittenRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KittenRelease</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tar</span></a></p>