Canonical wants ntpd-rs, a Rust rewrite of NTP (Network Time Protocol), to become Ubuntu's default time sync client. To help get there, Canonical has

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.

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months 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.