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Re:Redox OS – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by eddsh1994 on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:03PM (#35005668)
Imagine the number of developer years required for even just parity…
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Re:Redox OS – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by fbdab103 on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:29PM (#35005818)
I think it is a Ship of Theseus situation. Once Rust becomes acceptable in the core kernel, module by module, it is going to spread.

I am fully Team Rust for core infrastructure, but I am curious how many security blunders in the kernel are memory errors vs bad security architecture.

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Re:Redox OS – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by djbusby on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:28PM (#35005809)
20 years, 1000+ devs. Just a guess.
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Re:Redox OS – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust by sliken on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:53PM (#35005969)
Sort of. Is the Linux kernel huge and has an amazing number of man years in it .... certainly.

If starting over from scratch could you ignore most architectures, drivers, etc and support current hardware ... also yes.

A new OS could skip 32 bit mode, alpha, mips, itanium, loongarch, 68k, pa-risc, powerpc, s390, superH, sparc, parallel ports, serial ports, supporting zillions of PCI/PCIe cards that you can't buy any more, messing around with archaic 16 bit bootloaders, etc.

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