Redox OS 0.7.0 - Hackdot

Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by notorandit on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:10AM (#31202273)

Hi Jeremy and first of all, thank you very much for your efforts in trying to bring some new fresh air in the OS world. We see nowadays OSes and applications running short in resources with, let's say, 2GB RAM and 2 2GHz cores, typical resources for old-school 32-bit systems. Do you have in mind to keep the resource hunger of your OS as low as possible so they could fit (and be actually effective and useful) also on such "limited" hardware?

I ask this because I use what I would call "a rather capable" 64-bit laptop that normally does nothing but yet can easily struggle with some web-based multimedia service running in a browser.

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Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by jackpot51 on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:02AM (#31204545)

Redox has pretty low resource requirements.

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Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by kibwen on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:33AM (#31206467)

How much performance overhead does the microkernel design impose? Or is it actually the opposite these days (there's got to be a reason people keep moving network stacks into userspace for performance...)?

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Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by watermelon0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:19PM (#31210152)

People are moving network stacks into userspace to be closer to the application, which improves the performance. Similarly, you could move application code to the kernel, which is what unikernels achieve. :)

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