[$] Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default

If all goes according to plan, the Ubuntu project will soon bereplacing many of the traditional GNU utilities with implementationswritten in Rust, such as those created by the uutils project, which we covered inFebruary. Wholesale replacement of core utilities at the heart of aLinux distribution is no small matter, which is why Canonical's VP ofengineering, Jon Seager, has released oxidizr. Itis a command-line utility that helps users easily enable or disablethe Rust-based utilities to test their suitability. Seager is callingfor help with testing and for users to provide feedback with theirexperiences ahead of a possible switch for Ubuntu25.10, an interim releasescheduled for October2025. So far, responses from the Ubuntucommunity seem positive if slightly skeptical of such a majorchange.