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Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
This post explores modern equivalents of foundational system utilities such as coreutils and sudo, introduces an experimental utility for testing them, and maps out a path to their widespread adoption in Ubuntu.
Over the years, projects like GNU Coreutils have been instrumental in shaping the Unix-like experience that Ubuntu and other Linux distributions ship to millions of users. Rust may present a steeper learning curve than C in some ways, but by providing such a strong framework around the use of memory it also lowers the chances that a contributor accidentally commits potentially unsafe code. We will need to do so carefully, and be willing to scale back on the ambition where appropriate to avoid diluting the promise of stability and reliability that the Ubuntu LTS releases have become known for, but I’m confident that we can make progress on these topics over the coming months.
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