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Competition is a good thing.
What does GNU coreutils compete with, out of curiosity?
busybox and uutils from the top of my hat.
uutils is still busy playing catch-up to gnu coreutils though, so unclear how much competition in terms of features they provide
While all programs have been implemented, some options might be missing or different behavior might be experienced.
uutilsis coreutils re-written in Rust that Ubuntu just switched to by default in 25.10Must be pretty mature then in that case.
What are the benefits compared to regular old GNU coreutils?
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:
