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Ubuntu is swapping its time sync tool for a Rust-based version - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) by SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Licence is MIT / Apache, of course.

EDIT: of course the relicensing is the problem here. Alas we're in an all-time low interest in Free and Open Source politics, ideologies, and organization so the Big Evil Corpos continue to do their thing, one cog per time.

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 5 hours ago

And I could remove it and reinstall another one if I wanted...

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

The security focused Linux distros use Chrony

[–] molten_boron@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, and?

[–] helix@feddit.org 5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I also wondered why this is a big news. Usually those tools are tried and tested over years of development and only run once a day or boot or even less. Don't know if it has that much of an impact.

It's cool and all, kudos to the devs, but idk why it's posted here and an article is written about it.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It's news because despite there already being a number of issues caused by Ubuntu transitioning to poorly done Rust ports common utils, they continue the practise.

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

I hate the fact that 30+ years old tools are switched to tools that are barley tasted and bug prone(as it was shown ).

[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

RReligion over substance.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I also wondered why this is a big news

You think this is "big" news? An Ubuntu focused blog reporting on what Ubuntu is doing is not exactly the big time.

[–] huey_m@reddthat.com 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like there's a lot of concern about more and more free software moving over to the MIT license.

I honestly don't know the ins and outs, but it's probably relevant to people concerned about it.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That license allows you to take the source, make changes and keep them to yourself. Which is not in the spirit of open source imho.

[–] huey_m@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago

This was my understanding, but I really am not in the loop enough to say it with certainty, so appreciate the confirmation. I agree, I think we're seeing from contributions made by people like Valve that there's real value in requiring derivative work to give back to the community it drew from. But again, I'm really not super well informed. I just tend to pick GNU options when available.

[–] jcr@jlai.lu 3 points 7 hours ago

We need more GNU projects