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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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[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

Going from GPL to a weaker license was a terrible idea and whoever supported it should be held accountable.

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 0 points 7 hours ago

GNU coreutils is not going anywhere or having its license be weakened.

But anyway, I am glad that you are brave enough to be willing to personally punish people for using a license that you do not prefer.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 5 points 17 hours ago

Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

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Phoronix, you are the trolls.

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 21 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

We like the Rust, we hate the cuck license. Simple.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

I don't understand what's going on with the rust community insisting on cuck licences. Do they love writing on their Mac books so much?

[-] Maddier1993@programming.dev -4 points 16 hours ago

You're a rube if you think corporations can't throw some money at interns do a rewrite in MIT and bypass GPL that way.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

So let them do that. Why should we be doing their dirty work for them?

Unless we're stupid.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago

Replace a perfectly usable GPL software for MIT? Nope. I used to fall for that ten years ago. The social infrastructure of software is more important than the exact tech used. The license is fundamental to that.

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[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 day ago

it still has a permissive license :(

[-] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

You are very right. While non-copyleft licences makes sense for some software (a game engine like Godot, for example, released under the MIT licence) it's absolutely awful for the coreutils.

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[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago

Lol, very first pair of comments. I love phoronix sometimes.

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago

Ah, the duality of man...

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[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago

If they could just use a real licence and even more copyleft (at least something, like EUPL, MPL or GPLv2)

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is trolling when it broke production level systems?

To be fair im NOT blaming the rust util team. I hope the best for them. But it was a bad decision to use something like that to power systems before it was fully tested and ready. It broke many different things in prod at work and we had to switch over to another distro entirely. Which was a lot of work. It made us stop using Ubuntu which is a shame.

[-] Maestro@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

Your first mistake was using Ubuntu on a production server. Canonical has made more than enough questionable decisions over the past decade that using Ubuntu for a production system should be a red flag.

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