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Ubuntu Loses Features and Breaks Itself Because Canonical Hired a Young British Army Officer to Make Bad Decisions
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The New Stack ☛ Ubuntu 25.10 Scraps X11 for Wayland: A Solid Step Forward [Ed: Ubuntu is dropping many features that only X has is not good news; also, it loses compatibility with a lot of software; decisions are made by the blind.]
I love a good Ubuntu release.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Rust Bug Broke Ubuntu 25.10 Automatic Update Checks [Ed: Rust breaks Ubuntu]
Ubuntu’s decision to switch to Rust-based coreutils in 25.10 hasn’t been the smoothest ride, as the latest — albeit now resolved — bug underscores. The distro’s developers are bullish on the security and stability benefits that “oxidising” Ubuntu’s package set with Rust-based tools provide. In 25.10, it plumbed in Rust-based replacements for sudo and coreutils. The latter is (as you may guess from the name) a set of core utilities that function from the command-line. These are used by a number of processes, apps and scripts, including Ubuntu’s own unattended-upgrades process, which automatically checks for new software updates).
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Bug in Coreutil's Rust Implementation Briefly Downed Ubuntu 25.10's Automatic Upgrade System
Ubuntu 25.10 was released earlier this month, bringing with it many improvements like a recent kernel with extended hardware support, GNOME 49 with lockscreen media controls, new default core apps, and the removal of the X11 session.
It also included a major new Rust component called sudo-rs, which replaces the traditional sudo with a Rust-based alternative. But, so far, we have seen a major bug breaking flatpaks on this release, and while it was quickly fixed, another one was recently caught.
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Ubuntu Announced How to Fix for 25.10 Automatic Updates
For users of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, Ubuntu team announced how to fix the issue that automatically check of updates not working in desktop, server, cloud, and container. As you may know, Ubuntu replaced GNU Core Utilities with Rust in 25.10.