It's hard to tell due to the poor wording in Phoronix's part, but they're talking about "retiring" the ntpd reference implementation -- not the protocol, obviou

It's hard to tell due to the poor wording in Phoronix's part, but they're talking about "retiring" the ntpd reference implementation -- not the protocol, obviously. Personally, I'd rather see them move to chrony over NTPsec.