Canonical has become the first gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, committing €40,000/year to support the development of memory-safe system utilities written in Rust. Building on prior collaboration like the Rust-based sudo rewrite, the next focus is ntpd-rs, a Rust implementation of an NTP time synchronization client and server. The plan is to test ntpd-rs in Ubuntu 26.10 and make it the default in Ubuntu 27.04. The Trifecta Tech Foundation also counts AWS and Google as silver sponsors.
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