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Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils

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Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils

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Ignoring the subject matter, that's a terrible LLM slop article. Odd phrasing and extra words like Zanonical all around. Just a wholly unreliable source for anything if they allow that on their platform.
Hmm... Time to go back to Debian. Too bad, I liked Mint.
- Can't Mint just choose not to incorporate them? They did that with snaps
  
  Snap was just one side thing. Coreutils is, well, core. Diverging on that is like diverging on systemd: if Mint does that, they may as well split from Ubuntu completely, as the dependency hell with Ubuntu packages will be completely unmanageable.
- If you enjoyed Mint, what about moving to LMDE?
In theory I think it's a fine exercise rewriting tools like this. I'm not an expert on anything, least of all licenses, but going from GNU's GPL-3 license to uutils MIT license is perhaps the most noteworthy:
Unlike the GPL, the MIT license does not require that derivative works be open source. Developers can incorporate MIT-licensed code into their projects without being required to release the source code of their entire project.

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