The uutils project has released version 0.5.0 of its Rust Coreutils. The reimplementation of classic Unix command-line programs written in Rust now achieves 87.75 percent compatibility with the GNU ...

Abstract: Modern symbolic execution techniques face the challenge of handling closed-box (CB) functions (e.g., system calls, library functions) whose source code is unavailable. One interesting ...

Ubuntu’s decision to switch to Rust-based coreutils in 25.10 hasn’t been the smoothest ride, as the latest — albeit now resolved — bug underscores. The distro’s developers are bullish on the security ...

Are you running Ubuntu 25.10? Then we have great news! A tricky software problem that silently stopped automatic updates for some users is now fixed. This means your system can efficiently check for ...

I have a little different opinion on this matter. The GNU coreutils is mentioned just for true and false commands. Even busybox implements that, so it's not that GNU, so for this point, anyone of the ...

Welcome to the Coreutils repository! This project is a comprehensive Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils, designed to be cross-platform and efficient. Coreutils provides a suite of essential ...

The Rust Coreutils have been released in version 0.1. This is an open-source reimplementation of the GNU Core Utilities, which are mainly written in C. They contain over 100 classic Unix command line ...

Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in the version after next of Ubuntu, 25.10 – which also means changing the software license. A discussion of the change is underway on ...

It's now been about five years since I heard about the Rust programming language for the first time. It was when I was starting to write an operating system in C and the "Rust people" (as they seem to ...

Abstract: Debugging consumes significant time and effort in any major software development project. Moreover, even after the root cause of a bug is identified, fixing the bug is non-trivial. Given ...