GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features
GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features
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Competition is a good thing.
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What does GNU coreutils compete with, out of curiosity?
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busybox and uutils from the top of my hat.
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uutils is still busy playing catch-up to gnu coreutils though, so unclear how much competition in terms of features they provide
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While all programs have been implemented, some options might be missing or different behavior might be experienced.
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uutilsis coreutils re-written in Rust that Ubuntu just switched to by default in 25.10-
Must be pretty mature then in that case.
What are the benefits compared to regular old GNU coreutils?
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In the old days, many decades ago now, the main competitor was always the open source BSD implementation of these utilities — and they're still around:
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