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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by mjmas on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:40PM (#45688291)
It looks like we have three major open source imementations:

- GNU coreutils (GPLv3)

- uutils coreutils (MIT)

- busybox (GPLv2)

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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by skydhash on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:13PM (#45688662)
There's the BSD coreutils too.
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by rurban on Saturday October 25, 2025 @02:03PM (#45705793)
Which is the first and canonical one. GNU added a lot of bells and whistles, and esp. nonsense like --help and --version support for everything, like true and false.
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by rzr on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:45AM (#45691976)
Toybox is the 4th one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toybox

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