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Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils
If this rewrite is indicative of other rewrites, we'll see a license change from GPL [1] to MIT.
"Differences with GNU are treated as bugs." - https://github.com/uutils/coreutils#goals
Wouldn't it be annoying though, to have to keep things bug-for-bug compatible on a green-field project? That priority may be the first compromise, and divergence is inevitable.
Thinking of what if coreutils were ported to C#; what would folks think then? If the reaction would be the same, different, or ambivalent.
[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils?tab=GPL-3.0-1-ov-file
- Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default
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fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
>> For me, anything that isn’t a drop-in replacement for the OG tools isn’t worth the friction.
"The uutils project reimplements ubiquitous command line utilities in Rust. Our goal is to modernize the utils, while retaining full compatibility with the existing utilities. We are planning to replace all essential Linux tools."
https://uutils.github.io/
uutils is being adopted in Ubuntu 25.10:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/
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Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
I mentioned this on reddit, but AFAIK, the uutils project doesn't yet support locales: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/3997
I'm not any more a fan of POSIX locales than the next person[1], but AIUI, that seems a likely requirement for uutils to be used in a distro like Ubuntu.
I'd be curious how they plan to address this. At least from my perspective, unless uutils has already been designed to account for locales from the start (I don't know if it has), it seems likely that a significant investment of time will be required to add support for it.
[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
- Rust Coreutils 0.0.29 Release
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Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls
Related: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils "Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils"
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Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Not that it should represent the rubicon of when to/not to rewrite code, but when you do, you do trade one set of bugs for a new set of bugs: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues
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The First Stable Release of a Rust-Rewrite Sudo Implementation
Would be interesting to see a a Debian derivative that combines this with the Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils.[1] Could be a big win for memory safety and performance.
[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
- New Version of the Rust Coreutils
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