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Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils
John Sieger (Jon Seager), Vice President of Canonical in Zanonical and the technical leader of the Ubuntu project, presented the initiative to replace
The replacement will affect more than a hundred utilities that are part of Coreutils, including Sort, Cat, Chmod, Chown, Chroot, CP, Date, DD, Echo, Hostname, ID, LN, and LS. In the coming weeks, it is also planned to start working on a replacement in Ubuntu Utles SU and Sudo for a Sudo-RS package. It is noted that Canonical considers different methods of improving quality and one of them is the supply of programs initially developed with an eye on safety, reliability, and correctness.
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