Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year’s talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10’s adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils.

Ledru’s presentation covered the progress made on Rust Coreutils in recent times and Ubuntu 25.10’s uptake of Rust Coreutils and continuing that for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. While some bugs have been found as a result of it, they have been fixed rather quickly. Ledru’s presentation also points out some of the popular trolling around Rust Coreutils and ultimately how many of those commenters have been proven wrong

  • bitcrafter@programming.dev
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    14 hours ago

    It’s interesting that there are comments that say things like:

    The cult [emphasis mine] of Rust developers just won’t give up.

    We like the Rust, we hate the cuck [emphasis mine] license. Simple.

    Going from GPL to a weaker license was a terrible idea and whoever supported it should be held accountable. [emphasis mine]

    Whoever is suggesting and perpetuating MIT over GPL needs to be tarred and feathered [emphasis mine].

    And yet you have decided that it is my comments calling this out as being the trollish ones, as if I were the one being unreasonable.