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.

  • signofzeta@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I’m surprised Ubuntu wasn’t using systemd-timesyncd. It seems like something they’d like based on the prefix.