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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://fosstodon.org/users/atoponce/statuses/114169299272699106">Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 06:37:02 JST</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce" title="atoponce@fosstodon.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/8006-48-20230908064449.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:</a></section><article><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Ubuntu" rel="tag">#Ubuntu</a> is moving away from GNU coreutils to Rust-based uutils coreutils with Ubuntu 25.10. There are two big differences with this move:</p><p>1. uutils coreutils is MIT licensed, not GPL.<br>2. Obviously, it's written in Rust, a memory-safe compiled language, unlike C.</p><p>IMO, this is a good move.</p><p><a href="https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995</a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gnu" rel="tag">#gnu</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rust" rel="tag">#rust</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linux" rel="tag">#linux</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4754719#notice-9313209">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-03-19T06:37:02+09:00" title="Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 06:37:02 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/114169299272699106" rel="external" title="Sent from fosstodon.org via ActivityPub">fosstodon.org</a></span></span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/114169299272699106">permalink</a></footer></blockquote>

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Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 06:37:02 JST Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:
#Ubuntu is moving away from GNU coreutils to Rust-based uutils coreutils with Ubuntu 25.10. There are two big differences with this move:
1. uutils coreutils is MIT licensed, not GPL.
2. Obviously, it's written in Rust, a memory-safe compiled language, unlike C.
IMO, this is a good move.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995
#gnu #rust #linux
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