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Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 24 May 2025 at 07:24 PM EDT. 154 Comments
With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils "uutils" by default, it's a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project's goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release.

Succeeding the Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 release from two months ago is now Rust Coreutils 0.1. The version bump to the v0.1 milestone comes with this version delivering "major performance gains" as well as SELinux support and improved GNU Coreutils compatibility.

On the performance front, commands like wc, ls, cat, tail, seq and other Coreutils are now matching or exceeding the performance delivered by GNU Coreutils. This makes Rust Coreutils all the more compelling in that beyond being written in Rust for memory safety is also able to begin outperforming the C-based GNU Coreutils.

Rust Coreutils 0.1 adds SELinux integration for cp, mkdir, ls, install, and other common commands.

👁 Rust Coreutils 0.1 pass rate


Rust Coreutils 0.1 is passing 522 tests from the GNU Test Suite, up from 507 with the prior version.

More details on all of the big changes with Rust Coreutils 0.1 via GitHub.

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.