Rust Adoption At Scale

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Canonical ships Rust rewrites of coreutils and sudo as the default in Ubuntu 25.10, claiming a seamless rollout across an installed base of 15 million daily active desktop users. Work includes independent security reviews, an NTPDRS replacement for Crony, chiseled containers for tiny, well‑maintained images, UPKI for system CRL handling, and observed microbenchmarks (some utilities becoming up to ten times faster); rollbacks and packaging paths are provided and the changes are already live.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:03Rewriting core utilities
3. 3:49Security reviews and user experience considerations
4. 6:37Motivations for Rust
5. 10:28Canonical’s Rust toolchain
6. 14:01Packaging with Rust
7. 17:09Rust in Canonical projects

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