Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by mixmastamyk on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:17AM (#49698403)

I did, and the original dev of the component fixed it within a few days. It was straightforward, a backwards reading of a spec, reordered.

The fix is still sitting unmerged many months later.

This surprised me since I thought the project was in heavy bugfix/compat mode. I won’t touch it until I see some velocity on open bugs.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by baq on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:00AM (#49708322)

Fork Ubuntu and threaten their business model, that’ll get their attention.

Only half joking.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:38AM (#49708589)

Ubuntu is the fork; just use Debian.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by tjoff on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:43AM (#49708636)

There are plenty of Ubuntu forks?

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by geokon on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:39AM (#49709538)

There's very little incentive to switch. When people release for Linux they almost always first/only test it works on Ubuntu - hence it's going to be the least buggy. (ex: GOG only seemingly tested games on Ubuntu)

So the switching cost is buggy software. You'd need something radically different that brings enough new features to the table to make it worth it the switch and dealing with bad/non-existant support.

I think something like Nix/Guix but with stable library versions that matches Ubuntu/Debian LTS ones 1-to-1 could get traction

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by pessimizer on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:49AM (#49711105)

Embrace the lock-in.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by genxy on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:14PM (#49716527)

If you still have toes, take some morphine and reload.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by drdexebtjl on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:06AM (#49709748)

Then you would have to embrace their bad decisions, such as this one, and if you do, what’s the point?

Everything just needs to run from a container with their expected runtime environment.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by jeltz on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:18AM (#49711428)

My solution was to stop using Ubuntu and move to Debian.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by liamgm on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:28AM (#49713095)

And in that debian install rust unix coreutils as default

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