Ubuntu's 'Rust-ification' Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete

"Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack," reports the blog It's FOSS.The last three utilities — cp, mv and rm — have been moved to versions from the uutils project (which reimplements utilities in Rust).Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier releases... Canonical started "oxidizing" Ubuntu last year, and Ubuntu 25.10 became the first release to ship [ the uutils project's] coreutils as the default. That release