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Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by Arcuru »

Has the code quality in that repo gotten to a good point then? I haven't followed it much, but last I looked[1] (which was a few years ago) almost every tool I looked at in detail had pretty bad performance or correctness issues.

[1] https://jackson.dev/post/rust-coreutils-dd/

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

#53

Post by egorfine »

teekert wrote: post #4
lovedaddy wrote: post #2

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> Ubuntu devs have been nothing but good FOSS citizens

They have forced systemd despite feedback and genuine concerns.

They have forced fake sudo and uutils the same way.

So, ideology over merit. That doesn't mean that all of the Ubuntu devs are this way, but this means that the company is consistent in its ways to hurt Linux.

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by rvz »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #31
jmclnx wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably true, but the direction Linux is going these days is concerning

It's important to remember that this is a story about Ubuntu, and not Linux, and they are two very different projects with different motivations.

It does not matter. Both (Ubuntu [0], and the Linux Kernel [1]) use, build with and in some cases promote using LLMs.

[0] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81...

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1041694/

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by egorfine »

Arcuru wrote: post #52

Has the code quality in that repo gotten to a good point then? I haven't followed it much, but last I looked[1] (which was a few years ago) almost every tool I looked at in detail had pretty bad performance or correctness issues. [1] https://jackson.dev/post/rust-coreutils-dd/

The reason for existence of uutils is ideological, not technical. Thus code quality is of no use for the objective.

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by bigfishrunning »

qwj18 wrote: post #33
_ink_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to elaborate?

1) Corporate forced slop acceptance by e.g. Linus and Debian. 2) Seeing how bad the Linux kernel is with all the AI CVEs. It will get worse. BSD is the future.

Netcraft may confirm that some day

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by mid-kid »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #24

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Ubuntu started out with a slogan claiming "linux for human beings", and it kept that reputation for well over a decade, with a heavy focus on the desktop.

You can split hairs however you want, but this created a legacy, and is why Ubuntu is still one of the top recommended distributions for beginners.

Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Post by estebank »

Arcuru wrote: post #52

Has the code quality in that repo gotten to a good point then? I haven't followed it much, but last I looked[1] (which was a few years ago) almost every tool I looked at in detail had pretty bad performance or correctness issues. [1] https://jackson.dev/post/rust-coreutils-dd/

> last I looked[1] (which was a few years ago)

You weren't kidding: it was exactly 4 years ago ("September 13, 2022").

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