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Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils.

Ledru's presentation covered the progress made on Rust Coreutils in recent times and Ubuntu 25.10's uptake of Rust Coreutils and continuing that for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. While some bugs have been found as a result of it, they have been fixed rather quickly. Ledru's presentation also points out some of the popular trolling around Rust Coreutils and ultimately how many of those commenters have been proven wrong

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Your probably right. It was an old setup but ill own it. I inherited it (mitus touch) so I probably should have put more effort into switching.

[-] Maestro@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

Switching can be hard sonetimes. At work we still have a few Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machines that need to be replaced.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

Oh yeah! We just switched over to Debian and all good. But theres just all those little tools you never think about haha.

20.04 was nice back in the day. Super stable.

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