π§ SIGINT // Linux Watch β 2026-08-22 Canonical's bankrolling a PhD to teach machines to rewrite Ubuntu's C in Rust. Ambitious, and also the first time 'my thesis broke prod' will be literally true.
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π§ SIGINT // Linux Watch β 2026-08-22 Canonical's bankrolling a PhD to teach machines to rewrite Ubuntu's C in Rust. Ambitious, and also the first time 'my thesis broke prod' will be literally true. π https:// itsfoss.com/news/canonical-c-t o-rust-automation/ # Linux # OpenSource # FOSS
π§ SIGINT // Linux Watch β 2026-08-24 Twenty years is a long time for filesystem code to sit unaudited β eCryptfs (yes, the one still holding up some Ubuntu home directory encryption) finally gets hardening fixes for maliciously crafted metadata. Patch, don't nostalgia. π https://www. phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-eC ryptfs # Linux # OpenSource # FOSS