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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 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They never should've gone with a weak license to begin with.

Whoever is suggesting and perpetuating MIT over GPL needs to be tarred and feathered.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev -3 points 14 hours ago

So now you are going to start tarring and feathering anyone who decides to start a project using the MIT license, or at least engage in an equivalent level of verbal violence at every possible opportunity?