Jon SeagerI'm thrilled to announce that the next target of #Ubuntu's oxidization plan will be ntpd-rs!
We will be funding the @trifectatech to build new features, enhance security isolation, and ultimately deliver a unified, memory-safe time synchronization utility for the Linux ecosystem for NTP, NTS and PTP.
Read the details on our Discourse! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ntpd-rs-its-about-time/79154
Ntpd-rs: it's about time!
I am thrilled to announce the next target in our campaign to replace core system utilities with memory-safe Rust rewrites in Ubuntu. In upcoming releases, Ubuntu will be adopting ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server, eventually replacing chrony, linuxptp and with any luck, gpsd for time syncing use-cases. ntpd-rs is a full-featured implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), written entirely in Rust. Maintained by the Trifecta Tech Foundation as part of Project P...
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