[$] Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default

Date:
Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:49:29 +0000

Description:
If all goes according to plan, the Ubuntu project will soon be
replacing many of the traditional GNU utilities with implementations
written in Rust, such as those created by the uutils project, which we
covered in
February. Wholesale replacement of core utilities at the heart of a
Linux distribution is no small matter, which is why Canonical's VP of engineering, Jon Seager, has released oxidizr . It
is a command-line utility that helps users easily enable or disable
the Rust-based utilities to test their suitability. Seager is calling
for help with testing and for users to provide feedback with their
experiences ahead of a possible switch for Ubuntu25.10, an interim release scheduled for October2025. So far, responses from the Ubuntu
community seem positive if slightly skeptical of such a major
change.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1014002/


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