Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
www.redox-os.org
The Redox official website

This isn’t Linux, but Linux-like. Its a microkernel built from the rust programming language. Its still experimental, but I think it has great potential. It has a GUI desktop, but the compiler isn’t quite fully working yet.

Has anyone used this before? What was your experience with it?

Note: If this is inappropriate since this isn’t technically Linux, mods please take down.

  • mogoh@lemmy.ml
    22·
    11 months ago

    Some thoughts:

    • Testing the capabilities of rust and proving what rust is capable of.
    • Seeing what rust is not capable of and proposing improvements for the rust language and ecosystem.
    • Trying new OS concepts. Linux for example is strongly backwards compatible. Starting a new OS is the opportunity to do things different and maybe better.
    • Maybe it will turn out, that the memory safety will improve OS’. We will only know for sure, if we try it.