I am thrilled to announce the next target in our campaign to replace core system utilities with memory-safe Rust rewrites in Ubuntu. In upcoming releases, Ubuntu will be adopting ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server, eventually replacing chrony, linuxptp and with any luck, gpsd for time syncing use-cases. ntpd-rs is a full-featured implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), written entirely in Rust. Maintained by the Trifecta Tech Foundation as part of Project P...