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posixutils version 4 was released. Still none of the big, exciting utilities implemented yet.

An old news item that never got posted:

posixutils version 3 was released Feb 2005.

See release notes in Files section for more details.

posixutils repository moved a couple months ago, to

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/posixutils.git

The second posixutils release has been posted at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nix-utils/

New utilities added: compress, comm, date, what, wc, renice, ipcrm, kill, rm.

The posixutils package is a new implementation of the entire SUSv3 utilities list: sh, cp, mv, rm, chmod, etc. The implementation aims for a race-free (as much as possible) userland, and a clean/maintainable codebase.

The source code repository for posixutils is available via the BitKeeper utility at the following URLs:
bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/posixutils
bk://kernel.bkbits.net/jgarzik/posixutils