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Sylvestre's blog
Personal blog · sylvestre.ledru.info/blogprogrammingsystems
Sylvestre's blog is a personal blog at sylvestre.ledru.info about programming and systems. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Debian Running on Rust Coreutils”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Blog de Sylvestre Ledru — archive statique (2004-2022)
Most-linked posts?
- Debian Running on Rust Coreutils4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-03-09
- An update on rust/coreutils2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-29
What Hacker News says?
>The GNU coreutils are still the very best you can get. I don't understand this statement then, have you heard of this https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md It sounds like you want bash POSIX support and it to be default before you would use them. The error nobody else replicated, and its stable enough to be included in debian. https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-...
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-on-rust-coreutils
on “Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping”Submitted Debian Running on Rust Coreutils as a story · 492 points
HN discussionOne fun recent development in 2021: https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-... > tldr: Rust/coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ ) is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang.
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-on-rust-coreutils
on “Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust”Submitted An update on rust/coreutils as a story · 187 points
HN discussionSome utils are faster already, and they are working on cp and mv progress bars. From the fosdem 2023 presentation: https://sylvestre.ledru.info/presentations/coreutils-fosdem-... == Example #1: $ hyperfine -r 10 \ "target/release/coreutils sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; \ target/release/coreutils sort shakespeare.txt.rand > /dev/null" \ "sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; \ sort shakesp…
Comment linking /presentations/coreutils-fosdem-2023/
on “bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD”Submitted Sun-java6 packages removed soon from Debian/Ubuntu (and all other linux distros) as a story · 99 points
HN discussionThe slides are linked, at https://sylvestre.ledru.info/presentations/coreutils-fosdem-... (for example), if you don't want to watch a video which discusses why they're doing it.
Comment linking /presentations/coreutils-fosdem-2023/
on “a thread”Submitted Debian rebuild with Clang 10 and some patches as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debian Running on Rust Coreutils as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debian Running on Rust Coreutils as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rebuild of Debian using clang 3.2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who is in control of LLVM/Clang? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An update on rust/coreutils. (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Simple Programing Language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reimplementing the Coreutils in a Modern Language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rebuild of Debian using Clang 3.9, 4.0 and 5.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang as a story · 1 points
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