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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

For people who don't know, there is already a fully Rust OS: https://www.redox-os.org/

Microkernel too which is pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I have heard about Redox. What's the difference between a microkernel and a kernel? Does redox use the linux kernel? Or has the guy written that in rust too?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

lots and lots more IPC. So lots and lots of context switches. So worse performance

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