Redox Rust OS
Infrastructure
operating system
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
9 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive progress by a small team, and a good showcase for Rust
From 4 comments
I've been seeing Redox develop for a while now, and I've got to say—it's really amazing what such a small group of people can accomplish. They have innovative tools in all sorts…
kbr on HNI've been watching Redox on and off since its inception, and I must say I'm really impressed at what it has achieved till now. It is a fully functional OS with binutils,…
FlyingSnake on HNI agree -- I've been somewhat negative about Rust, but it looks like Redox is one of the projects doing "real work" with it. It's an impressive vote of confidence for the…
chubot on HNCurious, what makes you think Rust isn't be used for "real work"? So far there's a high performance browser (servo + servo components in FF), kernel (Redox), parallelism library…
Ar-Curunir on HN
Memory safety in OS kernels is valuable
From 1 comment
I expect this sort of work doesn't get enough praise because it's just the start of what a full OS would look like, but I think having OS kernels written with more memory safety…
cjbprime on HN
ISO boots quickly and includes a window manager and GUI apps
From 1 comment
Hey there, thanks for the response. Just DL'd the ISO and it's only 38MB. I think there is some ambiguity when you say "Lower Memory Usage" and then talk about "ISO size". I was…
javajosh on HN
Objections
Too many copies of Unix tools rather than improvements
From 2 comments
Very impressive, but I'm still disappointed they are mostly copying Unix, rather than trying to improve it. E.g. based on the names, the coreutils are identical.
IshKebab on HNStrongly agreed. Especially since multiple successors to Unix already exist -- notably, Plan 9 and Inferno.
lproven on HN
High RAM requirements for a toy OS
From 1 comment
I wonder why Redox has so high requirements, 1GB of RAM looks like a lot for pretty much toy OS. I'm using server running on 256 MB RAM and it's enough for quite a lot of services.
vbezhenar on HN
Large ISO size
From 1 comment
What is the breakdown of the ISO size? It's now 430MB - what are all those bits? (I ask because, as a new OS, I'd expect it to be really tiny since it's so new.)
javajosh on HN
Hardware support is limited, such as wireless, graphics and touchpad
From 2 comments
I personally will use Redox once it is self-hosting as a desktop. However, there is a long, long way to go - wireless, graphics, and audio drivers must be improved.
jackpot51 on HNHey Ive built it on Voidlinux and ran it with Virtualbox but my touchpad dont work yet with qemu no problems with touchpad. Superb efforts! Great work devs and contribs! Such an…
r0br0dz on HN
Requests
Port to Raspberry Pi, older Android devices or routers
From 1 comment
I've been watching Redox on and off since its inception, and I must say I'm really impressed at what it has achieved till now. It is a fully functional OS with binutils,…
FlyingSnake on HN
Mobile phone support with touch input
From 1 comment
any plans to port it to mobile phones? If anyone worked on porting a touch-based input drivers I could contribute!
adhambadr on HN
Support for DirectX
From 1 comment
I wish to have an OS able to run DirectX same on window :D
NamPNQ on HN
Questions
Security model compared with Fuchsia/Zircon capabilities
From 1 comment
What is the security model of Redox? We’ve heard a bunch recently about the capabilities security model in Fuschia/Zircon, which is the other new operating system that excites…
jitl on HN
Common classes of bugs
From 1 comment
What are the most common classes of bugs you observe?
piinbinary on HN
Amount of unsafe code
From 1 comment
How much unsafe code is in redox and the core utils and what are you doing to ensure that you don't end up with the same bugs in your unsafe code that you find in C codebases?
empath75 on HN
Whether it runs under virt-manager
From 1 comment
Will it work with virt-manager, or it requires manual Qemu/KVM setup?
shmerl on HN
Alternatives named
FUSE and user-space filesystems
From 2 comments
This already done. FUSE
joshsyn on HNThis is the recurring argument about "monolithic kernels" vs "microkernels". In the latter different user-space processes can be used to implement filesystems, networking, etc.…
stevekemp on HN
Qubes OS and GenodeOS
From 2 comments
> To put apps on VMs with a very tight and secure OS underneath Hmm. Have you bounced off ideas with the Qubes OS team yet? It could be an option for the core OS/microkernel of…
mtgx on HNAnd/or, maybe even better, with the GenodeOS team?
akavel on HN
Plan 9 and Inferno
From 1 comment
Strongly agreed. Especially since multiple successors to Unix already exist -- notably, Plan 9 and Inferno.
lproven on HN
Linux distributions such as Alpine and Void
From 1 comment
I've been watching Redox on and off since its inception, and I must say I'm really impressed at what it has achieved till now. It is a fully functional OS with binutils,…
FlyingSnake on HN