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Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong (www.phoronix.com)
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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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[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Fair enough, but in that case, them using a less optimal license is a problem that will solve itself because it won't be used, so it is not something that needs to be brought up by multiple people in every post on uutils.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

People get excited about it, post about it, and disappointed by the reality of the license in constant cycle.

It's kind of the "missing stair" problem. Those who know, can go around it, but knew people need to be informed that it's busted to avoid it until an actual solution is presented.

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