I don't use Ubuntu anymore, partly because of their habit of running experiments like the coreutils switch, but I must say I do admire them for it. They seem committed to pushing the ecosystem forward, even if they have taken a leaf from Microsoft's book and are treating their users as test subjects.
Here before the haters. sudo was released around 1980. sudo-rs v. 0.2.0 was released in 2023. I suspect that in the next 2-5 years sudo-rs will be as safe and stable as sudo
If sudo is as stable as you say, which I’m sure it is, then why are we retiring it for a new rust version over several years which will allow extra security issues during that time?
Maybe writing things in rust is a good idea, but perhaps not stuff that’s already battle hardened, IMO.
> Maybe writing things in rust is a good idea, but perhaps not stuff that’s already battle hardened, IMO
Some people _love_ to learn the hard way, but some never learn.
And, as someone said:
"But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again. "
I don't use Ubuntu anymore, partly because of their habit of running experiments like the coreutils switch, but I must say I do admire them for it. They seem committed to pushing the ecosystem forward, even if they have taken a leaf from Microsoft's book and are treating their users as test subjects.
Here before the haters. sudo was released around 1980. sudo-rs v. 0.2.0 was released in 2023. I suspect that in the next 2-5 years sudo-rs will be as safe and stable as sudo
If sudo is as stable as you say, which I’m sure it is, then why are we retiring it for a new rust version over several years which will allow extra security issues during that time?
Maybe writing things in rust is a good idea, but perhaps not stuff that’s already battle hardened, IMO.
> Maybe writing things in rust is a good idea, but perhaps not stuff that’s already battle hardened, IMO
Some people _love_ to learn the hard way, but some never learn. And, as someone said: "But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again. "
In other news https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Broken-Upgrade