Post #1555776
2026-04-22 16:41 UTC
Today the #Ubuntu Foundations team posted an update on our progress toward 100% uutils coreutils adoption in Ubuntu.
As we stand for the release of 26.04 LTS, all utils except `cp`, `mv` and `rm` will be using uutils by default, with those remaining to be moved across early in the 26.10 cycle.
I'd like to acknowledge the huge amount of work that @sylvestre and the wider @uutils project put into this, and the collaboration with us and our partners on the security auditing and fixes.
Onwards!
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/80773
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@rasmus91@fosstodon.org 2026-04-22 17:25
@jnsgruk @sylvestre @uutils the only thing i have against uutils (because i really think rewriting the core utils in Rust is great) is the licensing. Why oh why the shitty MIT license...
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@tris@chaos.social 2026-04-22 20:46
@jnsgruk @sylvestre @uutils off-topic but I saw a bug report asking GNU coreutils to make the cp command automatically use --reflink=auto, as there isn't a good reason not to do so. I wonder if uutils coreutils does this.