GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Competition is a good thing.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

What does GNU coreutils compete with, out of curiosity?

[-] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

busybox and uutils from the top of my hat.

[-] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

uutils is still busy playing catch-up to gnu coreutils though, so unclear how much competition in terms of features they provide

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

While all programs have been implemented, some options might be missing or different behavior might be experienced.

[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

uutils is coreutils re-written in Rust that Ubuntu just switched to by default in 25.10

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Must be pretty mature then in that case.

What are the benefits compared to regular old GNU coreutils?

[-] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

In the old days, many decades ago now, the main competitor was always the open source BSD implementation of these utilities — and they're still around:

https://codeberg.org/dcantrell/bsdutils

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