Few days ago, on discourse we can read:
Last month I published Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years 428, which outlines four key themes for how I intend to evolve Ubuntu in the coming years. In this post, I’ll focus on “Modernisation”. There are many areas we could look to modernise in Ubuntu: we could focus on the graphical shell experience, the virtualisation stack, core system utilities, default shell utilities, etc.
and also:
Starting with Ubuntu 25.10, my goal is to adopt some of these modern implementations as the default. My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right.
So Canonical want leave from GNU core utilities and move to uutils’ coreutils
Let's do a little historical review
Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) have always insisted on using the term GNU/Linux to refer to the operating system as a whole. They believe that simply using the term "Linux" diminishes the fundamental role of GNU software in the development of the operating system. In 1983, Stallman launched the GNU Project with the goal of creating a free, Unix-like operating system. By 1991, much of the GNU software was ready (compilers, shells, text editors, system libraries), but the kernel was missing. When Linus Torvalds developed the Linux kernel, it was combined with GNU tools to form a complete operating system. The Linux kernel handles low-level hardware and processes; GNU utilities provide the user interface, shell (bash), commands (ls, cp, grep,...), compiler (gcc), libraries (glibc), and so on. Without GNU, Linux alone would be unusable for most users.
license
GNU core utilities is GNU General Public License (GPL)
U-utils is MIT License
The sources from which I extrapolated what I wrote above
- Here the original topic from discourse:
- And here a couple of website that talk about this news:
I'm curious to read your idea about this passage