Canonical

So Ubuntu's migration to the Rust-based core utils is complete, although uutils is still working toward complete GNU compatibility.

Also, real quick before I end this topic, UUtils is not made by Ubuntu slash Canonical.

For those who have heard this misinformation about them making it, they did not.

It's an independent project that Ubuntu decided to adopt.

Linux users depend on these tools constantly, even if they, uh, rarely think about what language, uh, they're written in.

Canonical began making Rust Coreutils default with Ubuntu twenty-five dot ten.

So that's pretty quick in my opinion.

One year.

Um, most of the transition also made it into twenty-six O-Oh four.

So, I mean, they had the bulk of it done even much sooner.

But Canonical held back, uh, you know, the copy, move, remove because security audits uncovered unresolved, uh, time of check to time of use problems.

Uh, that was...

There have been some notable exceptions.

The trade organizations like the Linux Foundation eclipse and a few others mozilla have raked in you know not just millions but hundreds and hundreds of millions just regularly hand over fist they're like pac-man chomping through money waka waka waka but the gnome foundation and kde and the free software foundation and the conservancy and free bsd and so many others have struggled historically to raise money there have been so many years where you look at the the the the tax returns and whatnot for kde or gnome or other things and you're like they brought in like 200 000 bucks right they just bring in little bits here and there does that make any sense no it's crazy It's absolutely insane how software underpinning some of the biggest companies' products, IBM, Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, etc., struggles to make even enough to pay for one or two engineers.

It's just absolutely baffling to me.

Well, then along comes DHH's Omarchi.

What I would like to see, though... is a return to the days where there was a distro that people got excited about and attended official in-person events for that distro.

In the earlier days of Canonical, when there was UDS, and it was genuinely a community event, and you would get people who worked at Canonical and equal numbers of people who didn't work at Canonical and were from the community participating.

That was an amazing, exciting time.

Now, it might be just that was an exciting time in my life and it's not relevant to anybody else.

[laughs] PHP-Twig [laughs] is an Ubuntu university- universe repository.

Uh, Canonical's standard five-year LTS security commitment officially applies to packages in Main.

Uh, Ubuntu Pro expands that coverage to Universe, which contains tens of thousands of additional packages.

Uh, maintaining all of that software, yeah, I get it costs money, and companies should get paid for their work.

But I thought, I thought the packages in Pro were things that, that, uh, weren't, you know, they weren't available other places, you know, that, that Ubuntu was packaging these ahead of time or making the fixes themselves.

Um, you know what? Like for example, something like, uh, if Canonical patched and packaged, uh, themselves, you know, before they, before it was offered and, uh, long after it was officially supported, um, you know, if, if this was like five or eight years out and the, the, the software provider was not patching it anymore, but they patched because...

but Ubuntu patched it because they, you know, they promised support and there was a vulnerability.

So I thought it was situations like that.