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Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust (tube.archworks.co)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Why, for what purpose? Sounds very shady, at best.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Literally why? Not even criticizing rust but the GNU core utils are easily some of the most reliable and documented software tools ever written.

Not to mention, looks like the rust core utils are MIT and not GPL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Literally why?

Because MIT?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Archlinux usually is a bit more reasonable. I don’t understand the forcing. Just makes me love it (archlinux) more!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What about licences and FOSS?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

According to the video it's MIT licence, and they discuss the risk of such a licence vs coreutils usage of the GPL

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

This worries me indeed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Rust is good, rare Ubuntu W. Now stop with the forced use of snaps.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

You think this is a win, but is just another step in the enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Wait is this their way to break compatibility with old binaries so that you're forced to use snap?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

They're steadily climbing the test suit:

test coverage

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Check out our new Coreutils! (Snap required)

Seriously though I'm just imagining that Coreutils are now going to be dependent on snap.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

The uutils should be compatible so I don't think so

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I don't think so unless they make their own rust core utils.

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