Ubuntu’s plan to “carefully but purposefully oxidise” the distro has given us the perfect playground to see what really happens when you swap decades-old GNU coreutils for their shiny Rust equivalents. Spoiler: everything relies on way more weird flags than you think — and significantly more than the internet’s finest armchair kernel engineers believe. In this talk, I’ll share the fun, the sharp edges, and the truly unexpected lessons from bringing Rust Coreutils (https://github.com/uutils/coreu

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