2024-06-19 uutils coreutils is a core utilities project (providing commands like ls/cp/etc) written in Rust and targetting compability with the GNU core utilities. They have made impressive progress on their goal of passing all the tests in the GNU test suite, so I wondered what it would look like to run them as the primary coreutils on a full Linux system. Importantly, I didn't want to test this in an embedded application where the coreutils may be used primarily by humans as debug tools; I wan...