Why “uutils” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Couple things: Comparing uutil's CVEs per year against GNU coreutils paints a very poor picture. I haven't checked OpenBSD coreutils, but I suspect it's even more ahead. Rust do…
by yjftsjthsd-h · Oct 4, 2026
Perhaps, uutils is garbage though, pushed by some only for rather bad reasons (Rust and license). I worry more about projects where it is not directly laughed out of the room.
by uecker · Oct 4, 2026
I wonder might this be partly due to licensing concerns given uutils have acknowledged they've copied GNU GPL code. From their latest release notes ( https://github.co…
by hn97833 · Oct 4, 2026
Discussion nhere: https://www.mail-archive.com/ports@openbsd.org/msg143875.htm... Of note is Theo's answer which follows below: --- Theo de Raadt Sun, 20 Sep…
by bel8 · Oct 4, 2026
OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils
by pjmlp · Oct 4, 2026 · 32 points
If there's a project that takes 45 minutes to produce a debug build from scratch, that's not a Rust problem, that's a them problem. Let's compare. I just checked out ripgrep and…
by kibwen · Oct 2, 2026
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