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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by blackrock on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:58PM (#23969895)
Once you have the file system, and a scheduler, don’t you have a basic rudimentary operating system?

How soon until someone builds an Operating System developed in Rust? Maybe make it microkernel-based this time.

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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by smt88 on Monday July 27, 2020 @06:08PM (#23969991)
> How soon until someone builds an Operating System developed in Rust?

Redox[1] has been around for almost as long as Rust has. I first heard about it 4-5 years ago.

They had an interesting competition a while back challenging people to figure out how to crash it.

1. https://www.redox-os.org/

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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by blackrock on Monday July 27, 2020 @06:32PM (#23970192)
Yeah, I heard about this project. But there’s a graveyard of dead OS projects out there.

What’s the progress and potential of Redox?

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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by mlindner on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:16PM (#23978956)
Redox is being worked on continuously. They just added support for gdb.
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