GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features

thingsiplay@beehaw.org · 9 months

Competition is a good thing.

Victor@lemmy.world · 9 months

What does GNU coreutils compete with, out of curiosity?

Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org · 9 months

busybox and uutils from the top of my hat.

esa@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 months

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

Victor@lemmy.world · 9 months

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

darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 months

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

eleijeep@piefed.social · 9 months

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

Victor@lemmy.world · 9 months

Must be pretty mature then in that case.

What are the benefits compared to regular old GNU coreutils?