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Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility

([Programming] 5 Hours Ago Rust Coreutils 0.5)


Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite.

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is described in today's announcement as " a significant milestone featuring comprehensive platform improvements " There are an additional 22 tests passing now that brings Rust Coreutils 0.5 up to an 87.75% pass rate for the GNU test suite.

Rust Coreutils 0.5 has seen major improvements to its fold, cksum, install, and numfmt utilities. There is also improved large integer handling for the seq utility, enhanced mode parsing for install, enhanced Cygwin support in uucore, and improved build processes across platforms.

Downloads and more details on today's Rust Coreutils 0.5 release via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.5.0


Brief History Of Linux (#5)
English Flame War

The idea behind Slashdot-style discussions is not new; it dates back to
London in 1699. A newspaper that regularly printed Letters To The Editor
sparked a heated debate over the question, "When would the 18th Century
actually begin, 1700 or 1701?" The controversy quickly became a matter of
pride; learned aristocrats argued for the correct date, 1701, while others
maintained that it was really 1700. Another sizable third of participants
asked, "Who cares?"

Ordinarily such a trivial matter would have died down, except that one
1700er, fed up with the snobbest 1701 rhetoric of the educated class,
tracked down one letter-writer and hurled a flaming log into his manor
house in spite. The resulting fire was quickly doused, but the practice
known as the "flame war" had been born. More flames were exchanged between
other 1700ers and 1701ers for several days, until the Monarch sent out
royal troops to end the flamage.