LUP 607: Ubuntu's Rusty Roadmap¶
- Air Date: 2025-03-23
- Duration: 64 mins 13 secs
About this episode¶
Canonical's VP of Engineering for Ubuntu reveals why they're swapping coreutils for Rust-built tools. Then we break down the GNOME 48 release, and why this one is special.
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Episode links¶
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Jon Seager
- Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years — We should look deeply at the tools we ship with Ubuntu by default, selecting for tools that have resilience, performance and maintainability at their core.
- Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu — Starting with Ubuntu 25.10, my goal is to adopt some of these modern implementations as the default. My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right.
- GNOME 48 Release Notes — The GNOME project is excited to introduce GNOME 48, a fresh release shaped by six months of hard work from our amazing community. Named “Bengaluru”, this release pays tribute to the dedication of the GNOME Asia 2024 organizers.
- awesome-tuis
- Pick: Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux🐧
- Ulauncher on GitHub
- Hotkey In Wayland · Ulauncher Wiki
- Browse Ulauncher Extensions
- Gitmoji Extension
- Todoist task management Extension
- mariob88/ulauncher-todoist-integration
- Turn Off Screen Extension
- Home Assistant Extension
- qcasey/ulauncher-homeassistant
- Obsidian Extension
Tags¶
community feedback, coreutils replacement, desktop wellbeing, fedora beta, gnome 48, gnome performance, gpl concerns, grapheneos, haiku os, hdr support, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux traditions, linux unplugged, mesa nvk, notification stacking, open-source security, proton donation, rust tools, supply chain, tailscale vpn, tui challenge, ubuntu roadmap, ulauncher, uutils adoption