What does GNU coreutils compete with, out of curiosity?
busybox and uutils from the top of my hat.
uutils is coreutils re-written in Rust that Ubuntu just switched to by default in 25.10
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:
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 coreutils re-written in Rust that Ubuntu just switched to by default in 25.10In 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:
https://codeberg.org/dcantrell/bsdutils