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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Tomson Talks">Mikalai
Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote on 2026-05-04 11:37:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><font face="Tomson Talks">coreutils in rust, at Ubuntu (?)
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<p><font face="Tomson Talks">That's a rather damning list of issues;
quite disappointing.</font></p>
<p><font face="Tomson Talks">The Open Source Security podcast had a
½ hour interview with the project lead back in March:</font></p>
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<p><font face="Tomson Talks">Open Source Security: Rust coreutils
with Sylvestre Ledru<br>
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Episode webpage: </font><font face="Tomson Talks"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opensourcesecuritypodcast.libsyn.com/rust-coreutils-with-sylvestre-ledru">https://opensourcesecuritypodcast.libsyn.com/rust-coreutils-with-sylvestre-ledru</a></font></p>
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Media file:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/2026-03-rust-coreutils-sylvestre-ledru.mp3?dest-id=542864">https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/2026-03-rust-coreutils-sylvestre-ledru.mp3?dest-id=542864</a></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tomson Talks">From memory, they were working in
collaboration with the coreutils team, using the same test
suite, and even found a bug in `sudo` that they informed
upstream about. (Again, this is all from memory.)</font></p>
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<blockquote type="cite">Josh talks to Sylvestre Ledru about the
Rust coreutils project. We've been using GNU coreutils for
decades now, and the goal of Rust coreutils is to rewrite
these utilities in Rust. The primary reason isn't security,
it's to modernize the code and attract new contributors.
Sylvestre discusses with quite pleasant relationship with the
GNU coreutils developers, some of the challenges in the
project. What Ubuntu using this by default meant, and also
gives us some things to watch for in the future. It's a super
fun discussion about why Rust is not only awesome, but also
the future.<br>
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The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-03-rust-coreutils-sylvestre-ledru/">https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-03-rust-coreutils-sylvestre-ledru/</a></blockquote>
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