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Notes on coreutils in Rust · Alex Gaynor
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March 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Notes on coreutils in #rustlang alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/22/...
wow, uutils is up to over 96% test compatibility with GNU coreutils www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Co...
Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf
Following the Rust Coreutils presentation from FOSDEM this weekend, Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust programming language re-implementation of GNU Coreut...
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February 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
wow, uutils is up to over 96% test compatibility with GNU coreutils www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Co...
people when it comes to Rust: "I won't use it because there's not multiple implementations"
people when it comes to coreutils in Rust: "How dare someone write a second implementation"
people when it comes to coreutils in Rust: "How dare someone write a second implementation"
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
people when it comes to Rust: "I won't use it because there's not multiple implementations"
people when it comes to coreutils in Rust: "How dare someone write a second implementation"
people when it comes to coreutils in Rust: "How dare someone write a second implementation"
Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.5
Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.5
the version of head provided by coreutils on ubuntu somehow just crashed maybe the chuds were right about rust
March 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
the version of head provided by coreutils on ubuntu somehow just crashed maybe the chuds were right about rust
Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-cp-Ubuntu-Images
Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility
While the Rust Coreutils offers better memory safety than GNU Coreutils due to being written in the Rust programming language, subtle incompatibilities continue to be spotted in the Rust Coreutils implementations of the different commands. The latest coming to light this week was the Rust Coreutils cp command breaking Ubuntu image builds due to differences in argument handling...
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July 3, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-cp-Ubuntu-Images
Rust Coreutils 0.12 Released With Fixes Sought By Ubuntu - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.12-Released
Rust Coreutils 0.12 Released With Fixes Sought By Ubuntu
Days after the recent release of GNU Coreutils 9.12, Rust Coreutils 0.12 was released overnight for advancing this alternative Rust-based implementation of these core utilities...
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September 17, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Rust Coreutils 0.12 Released With Fixes Sought By Ubuntu - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.12-Released
Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.4
Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance
Rust Coreutils continues moving fast on their goal "toward full GNU compatibility" with the GNU Coreutils. The uutils project announced Rust Coreutils 0.4 this evening with better compatibility, performance optimizations, and other improvements...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.4
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March 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Rust Coreutils 0.11 Released With Some Nifty Debug Helper Messages - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.11
Rust Coreutils 0.11 Released With Some Nifty Debug Helper Messages
Rust Coreutils 0.11 was just released as this alternative to the GNU Coreutils. Besides the long-running task of catching up the GNU Coreutils compatibility with the GNU test suite and never-ending work on optimizing the performance, Rust Coreutils 0.11 is quite a nice release for its improved error messages...
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August 31, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Rust Coreutils 0.11 Released With Some Nifty Debug Helper Messages - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.11
alpine aarch64 kernel, musl libc, BSD + Toybox coreutils, dinit, libressl, ZFS, wayland... my halo-halo of a linux distro is taking a weird shape and its not a wildebeest
March 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
alpine aarch64 kernel, musl libc, BSD + Toybox coreutils, dinit, libressl, ZFS, wayland... my halo-halo of a linux distro is taking a weird shape and its not a wildebeest
a something i've been hacking on:
✨ pdsfs: mount #atproto PDS repositories as a FUSE filesystem!
more info in the repo's readme: tangled.sh/@oppi.li/pdsfs
i've fetched my top 10 @rocksky.app artists with just jq and coreutils:
✨ pdsfs: mount #atproto PDS repositories as a FUSE filesystem!
more info in the repo's readme: tangled.sh/@oppi.li/pdsfs
i've fetched my top 10 @rocksky.app artists with just jq and coreutils:
July 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
a something i've been hacking on:
✨ pdsfs: mount #atproto PDS repositories as a FUSE filesystem!
more info in the repo's readme: tangled.sh/@oppi.li/pdsfs
i've fetched my top 10 @rocksky.app artists with just jq and coreutils:
✨ pdsfs: mount #atproto PDS repositories as a FUSE filesystem!
more info in the repo's readme: tangled.sh/@oppi.li/pdsfs
i've fetched my top 10 @rocksky.app artists with just jq and coreutils:
Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released
Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains
Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...
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April 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released
Not to spoil the article, but Alex perfectly lays out the reasons of why Ubuntu switching from coreutils to the Rust-based reimplementation uutils is a great idea — EVEN if coreutils were perfect and bug-free.
Notes on coreutils in Rust · Alex Gaynor
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March 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Not to spoil the article, but Alex perfectly lays out the reasons of why Ubuntu switching from coreutils to the Rust-based reimplementation uutils is a great idea — EVEN if coreutils were perfect and bug-free.
sexy GNU coreutils source code
October 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
sexy GNU coreutils source code
`sudo apt-get remove coreutils-from-uutils --allow-remove-essential `
This should install coreutils-from-gnu.
This is the quintessence of something that must be bug-compatible. It's not ready for real use.
This should install coreutils-from-gnu.
This is the quintessence of something that must be bug-compatible. It's not ready for real use.
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
`sudo apt-get remove coreutils-from-uutils --allow-remove-essential `
This should install coreutils-from-gnu.
This is the quintessence of something that must be bug-compatible. It's not ready for real use.
This should install coreutils-from-gnu.
This is the quintessence of something that must be bug-compatible. It's not ready for real use.
Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-FOSDEM-2026
Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong
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...
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February 2, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-FOSDEM-2026
🖥️🐧 Coreutils for Windows : les commandes Linux débarquent dans Windows 11
👉 www.justgeek.fr/coreutils-fo...
#CoreutilsforWindows #Commandes #Linux #Windows11 #OpenSource
👉 www.justgeek.fr/coreutils-fo...
#CoreutilsforWindows #Commandes #Linux #Windows11 #OpenSource
Coreutils for Windows : les commandes Linux débarquent dans Windows 11
Microsoft apporte plus de 75 commandes Linux à Windows 11 avec Coreutils for Windows. Voici comment l'installer et l'utiliser.
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June 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
🖥️🐧 Coreutils for Windows : les commandes Linux débarquent dans Windows 11
👉 www.justgeek.fr/coreutils-fo...
#CoreutilsforWindows #Commandes #Linux #Windows11 #OpenSource
👉 www.justgeek.fr/coreutils-fo...
#CoreutilsforWindows #Commandes #Linux #Windows11 #OpenSource
Kinda neat how they did this as a single exe
Microsoft's Coreutils project brings Linux commands to Windows
Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
June 3, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Kinda neat how they did this as a single exe
"--Actually, Linux is the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!"
I don't miss a beat and reply, "I use Alpine, which doesn't include Coreutils. it's not GNU+Linux."
With a wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
I don't miss a beat and reply, "I use Alpine, which doesn't include Coreutils. it's not GNU+Linux."
With a wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
fuck you
best feature of go: no libc
May 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM
"--Actually, Linux is the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!"
I don't miss a beat and reply, "I use Alpine, which doesn't include Coreutils. it's not GNU+Linux."
With a wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
I don't miss a beat and reply, "I use Alpine, which doesn't include Coreutils. it's not GNU+Linux."
With a wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.7
Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations
Rust Coreutils 0.7 released on Sunday as a performance-focused update to this popular alternative to GNU Coreutils that is still striving for 100% compatibility against the GNU Test Suite...
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March 9, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.7
Rust coreutils est disponible en version 0.10.0. Cette version apporte de nouvelles améliorations de compatibilité avec GNU Coreutils, ainsi que de nombreux correctifs, optimisations et renforcements de sécurité sur les utilitaires ⬇️
github.com/uutils/coreu...
github.com/uutils/coreu...
Release 0.10.0 · uutils/coreutils
Rust Coreutils 0.10.0 Release:
We are happy to announce the release of Rust Coreutils 0.10.0 - a release focused on GNU compatibility and robustness. The GNU test suite results improved sharply thi...
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August 7, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Rust coreutils est disponible en version 0.10.0. Cette version apporte de nouvelles améliorations de compatibilité avec GNU Coreutils, ainsi que de nombreux correctifs, optimisations et renforcements de sécurité sur les utilitaires ⬇️
github.com/uutils/coreu...
github.com/uutils/coreu...