[$] Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust

Most Linux systems depend on a suite of core utilities that the GNU Project started development ondecades ago and are, of course, written in C. At FOSDEM2025, Sylvestre Ledrumade the case in hismain stage talk that modern systems require safer, moremaintainable tools. Over the past few years, Ledru has led the chargeof rewriting the GNUCore Utilities (coreutils) in Rust, as the MIT-licensed uutils project. The goal is tooffer what he said are more secure, and more performant drop-inreplacements for the tools Linux users depend on. At FOSDEM, Ledruannounced that the uutils project is setting its sights evenhigher.