Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make ...

Starting with its 25.10 release, Ubuntu is switching the default sudo tool to a new version called sudo-rs, written in Rust.

Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the ...

Learn how oxidizr lets you safely switch to Rust-based Unix tools on Ubuntu and test their performance, safety, and stability ...

What came as an even bigger surprise was that something like sudo had to be “invented” in the first place. When thinking about the base Unix toolkit, there is always this feeling that it all ...