Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10
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Introduction Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the Trifecta Tech Foundation The change will be effective from the release of Ubuntu 25.10. You can see the Trifecta Tech Foundation’s announcement here. What is sudo-rs? sudo-rs is a reimplementation of the traditional sudo tool, written in Rust. It’s being developed by the Trifecta Tech Founda...
    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      Seems like it’s Apache-2.0, but original sudo is under ISC license, which is more permissive as far as I’m aware. Although Apache-2.0 is very much still considered “permissive”, too.

    • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Does it have to be Linux? Some greybeards are pretty opposed to it. I wonder if it would be easier to make our own theme park kernel with blackjack and hookers memory and thread safety, like Redox.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    we’re also sponsoring the uutils project to ensure that some key gaps are closed before we ship 25.10. The sponsorship will primarily cover the development of SELinux support for common commands such as mv, ls, cp, etc.

    I didn’t think Ubuntu used SELinux.