It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.
2026-05-01 12:01 UTC
Replies (13)
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@keepee@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 12:16
Why is this a problem?
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@banazir@lemmy.ml 2026-05-01 12:12
Well, what about just using Debian? It’s a bit hassle, maybe, but if you have prior Linux experience, you’ll be fine.
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@CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2026-05-01 12:08
LMDE comes to mind
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@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-01 14:39
There is the Mint version that is based directly on Debian, instead of Ubuntu: LMDE I haven’t used it myself, maybe someone with actual experience can comment on it.
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@LordGennai@lemmy.zip 2026-05-01 15:12
Noob question - I use Linux Mint and have for a year or so. People often have comments about switching distros like it’s super easy to do. If I wanted to do that, how hard is it? I’ve not really had any problems with Mint… but mainly want to know in case I want to try a new distribution one day.
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@thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 2026-05-01 15:44
You do realise that the Linux Kernel has Rust in it, right ? You’ll need to go to BSD if you want to be Rust-less www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes " Linux 7.0 also declares the Rust for Linux effort as “here to stay”"
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@mesamunefire@piefed.social 2026-05-01 15:57
We had things break at work because of rust-coreutils. I dont particularly care that its made in rust. It just needs to be stable and compatible. However, the project is not 100% compatible with GNU coreutils. Putting aside the licensing issues, if it cant do what it says on the tin, then it should be on experimental linux distros not our most popular distros. But this is linux/FOSS so people will do what they want. It means I wont use Mint, but its also ok for Mint to decide this. GL! hope everything works out either way.
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@SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2026-05-01 16:01
Have anybody here tried Tuxedo OS?
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@SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2026-05-03 15:16
Testing
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@SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2026-05-03 15:17
I wasn’t aware that the pist was hidden/remove by myself
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@savvywolf@pawb.social 2026-05-04 01:25
I thought we weren’t supposed to be using Mint anyways because it uses Systemd? /s
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@yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2026-05-01 14:32
The comment itself: […] Rust-coreutils does affect us. This is something we definitely see as part of the base so even though we would prefer for coreutils not to change, we’re hoping to align with Ubuntu on this. We’re concerned with regressions. New code almost always introduces regressions. That’s a lot of new code on very important components. I was shocked to see rust-coreutils updated from 0.7 to 0.8 just days before the stable release of Ubuntu 26.04. It actually broke something important on our side. We fixed it. I’m sure Ubuntu will update it whenever new regressions are found. We’ll see.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-05-31 14:58
Because upstream i guess?