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Rust Coreutils 0.4 Boosts GNU Compatibility to 85% (linuxiac.com)
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The Rust Coreutils project, which aims to provide a full, modern Rust implementation of the GNU Core Utilities — the essential command-line tools found on every Linux and Unix-like operating system — has announced the release of version 0.4.

Notably, the project’s growing maturity has already led to real-world adoption in some Linux distros, such as Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” and AerynOS, both of which now utilize Rust Coreutils for select system utilities.

Version 0.4 brings this release a step closer to achieving full GNU Coreutils compatibility. According to devs, the latest test results show 544 passing tests, up from 532 in the previous 0.3 release — an increase that raises total compatibility to 85.8%, while failures dropped from 68 to 56.

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[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My only issue is the permissive license, but I'm still hope they do well :3

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is my take as well. I'm extremely disappointed they only went with a temporarily open license instead of a proper one, but using MIT is unfortunately to be expected from the Rust ecosystem for whatever reason...

[–] morto@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

temporarily open?

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

MIT is an extremely weak license when it comes to defending free/libre rights; e.g. it allows proprietary forks. i.e. companies stealing the code, making their own bullshit corpo product and not even releasing the source code back

[–] morto@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I understand and share the dislike, but the openly released version will remain free, and no one can change it, so don't you think temporarily open is a bit misleading?