Ubuntu is replacing GNU core utils with rust based alternatives. Guess it's not GNU/Linux anymore.
Really hope they are backwards compatible in both input and output. I tried many modern alternatives to core utils but most of them used a more fancy formatting for the output breaking my scripts. Hope that's not the case with these.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995
Ubuntu Community Hub · Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising UbuntuLast month I published Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years, which outlines four key themes for how I intend to evolve Ubuntu in the coming years. In this post, I’ll focus on “Modernisation”. There are many areas we could look to modernise in Ubuntu: we could focus on the graphical shell experience, the virtualisation stack, core system utilities, default shell utilities, etc. Over the years, projects like GNU Coreutils have been instrumental in shaping the Unix-like experience that Ubuntu ...
