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Canonical/Ubuntu: Qualcomm Dragonwing, Stonking Stingray, and WSL Lies From a Microsoft Site Still Circulating
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Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu now certified on Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ-8275
“The Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 is designed to bring high performance, on-device AI, industrial grade reliability, and scalable connectivity together in a single platform. With certified Ubuntu support, our customers, ODMs, and ecosystem partners gain access to a secure, enterprise-ready software environment that accelerates development of next generation industrial automation, robotics, machine vision, and edge AI solutions.”
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Ubuntu ☛ Grace on the currents: Stonking Stingray
“While working on Stonking, I spoke with someone who encountered a stingray while diving. They described its remarkable presence and the extraordinary way it moved through the water—almost as if it were flying rather than swimming. That image stayed with me and became central to my design approach.
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XDA ☛ Ubuntu on Windows is about to become more popular than Ubuntu itself [Ed: Perpetuating lies from Microsoft]
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Ubuntu Stonking Stingray Gets Even Rustier
Back in 2025, Canonical began its push toward a full-blown Rustification of the coreutils package (which contains around 100 standard Linux command-line tools, such as chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, du, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, pwd, rm, rmdir, and touch), but there were hiccups.
For example, a bug was discovered in the Rust-based version of the date command, which prevented desktops, servers, cloud, and container images from automatically checking for updates when configured to do so. As more bugs were found, it became impossible to "oxidize" Ubuntu 25.10; ergo, the migration was pushed back.
After that deadline passed, Canonical commissioned an audit of the uutils package and, as it turned out, there were time-of-check to time-of-use issues found in three commands: cp, mv, and rm. Those issues have been officially resolved upstream, so Ubuntu 26.10 will include the full Rust-based coreutils and uutils packages when it is released on October 15, 2026.
As well, the Trifecta Tech Foundation is also undertaking the Rustification of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), but that will not appear until the 27.10 version of Ubuntu.