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Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by immibis on Saturday March 22, 2025 @06:55AM (#43444896)
I see no problem with Rust. The problem here is the licensing. The new project is proprietary-compatible.
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Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by IshKebab on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:32AM (#43445042)
So what? There's zero interest in proprietary extensions to coreutils. This isn't Linux or GCC; they're just basic command line utilities.

Also anyone that really cared could use the BSD versions anyway.

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