Trifecta Tech Foundation welcomes Canonical as Gold Sponsor
Trifecta Tech Foundation is delighted to welcome Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, as a new Gold sponsor! We're grateful for their €40,000/year sponsorship, a significant contribution to the flexible funding needed to sustain the maintenance work that keeps our critical infrastructure projects secure.
Canonical has replaced many core system utilities with memory-safe Rust rewrites in Ubuntu, underlined by their recent support for various memory-safe components and their maintainers, including Trifecta Tech Foundation's sudo-rs. This aligns perfectly with our goals of making critical infrastructure software safer by reducing the attack surface through robust, inherently safer components, and our mission to impact the digital security of hundreds of millions of people.
Increasing memory safety in Ubuntu is a critical part of improving the resilience of devices, servers and PCs worldwide. The adoption of sudo-rs by default in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS signaled a shift from "experimental feature" to "new security baseline" for memory safety. I'm delighted to be supporting the Trifecta Tech Foundation to continue the leadership of memory-safe alternatives to critical software for the benefit of the open source community.
Jon Seager, VP Engineering, Ubuntu
Learn more about Canonical at canonical.com and their work to adopt Rust-based system utilities in Ubuntu.
Canonical's support
Trifecta Tech Foundation depends on sponsorship and donations. Maintenance of critical infrastructure software is notoriously difficult to fund, yet it's essential work. Our Gold and Silver sponsors provide flexible, undirected support that makes this possible, enabling us to guarantee the long-term security and reliability of our projects.
About Trifecta Tech Foundation
Trifecta Tech Foundation is a non-profit and a Public Benefit Organization (501(c)(3) equivalent) that creates open-source building blocks for critical infrastructure software, in the initiatives Data compression, Time synchronization, and Privilege boundary.
If you would also like to support our work, please contact us; see trifectatech.org/support.
About Canonical
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides open source security, support, and services. Its portfolio covers critical systems, from the smallest devices to the largest clouds, from the kernel to containers, from databases to AI. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments, and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone. Learn more at https://canonical.com/.