uutilsApr 23
Jon Seager

Today the #Ubuntu Foundations team posted an update on our progress toward 100% uutils coreutils adoption in Ubuntu.

As we stand for the release of 26.04 LTS, all utils except `cp`, `mv` and `rm` will be using uutils by default, with those remaining to be moved across early in the 26.10 cycle.

I'd like to acknowledge the huge amount of work that @sylvestre and the wider @uutils project put into this, and the collaboration with us and our partners on the security auditing and fixes.

Onwards!

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/80773

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An update on rust-coreutils

This is a follow-up to Jon’s original post on Carefully (but purposefully) oxidising Ubuntu and Julian’s migration spec for 25.10. We promised transparency throughout this process, and this post is written in that spirit. What happened after the announcement Following the decision to adopt rust-coreutils, we got to work. Any package shipped by default in Ubuntu must be promoted to Ubuntu Main, which requires passing a thorough security review. We quickly assembled an internal team spanning Ubun...

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Show threadRasmus LindegaardApr 22
@jnsgruk @sylvestre @uutils the only thing i have against uutils (because i really think rewriting the core utils in Rust is great) is the licensing. Why oh why the shitty MIT license...
Show threadSylvestreApr 22
@rasmus91 @jnsgruk @uutils it was this way when i restarted the project and i didn't find a good reason to change it :)
Show threadTrisApr 22
@jnsgruk @sylvestre @uutils off-topic but I saw a bug report asking GNU coreutils to make the cp command automatically use --reflink=auto, as there isn't a good reason not to do so. I wonder if uutils coreutils does this.
Show threadSylvestreApr 23
@tris @jnsgruk @uutils could you please open a bug for this? thanks