January 19, 2018

Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust

1 hour 18 minutes

We talked with Jeremy Soller, the BDFL of Redox OS, a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel and full set of applications. In this episode we talk about; OS design principals, Jeremy’s goals for Redox, why is Rust, the Micro-kernel, the Filesystem, how Linux isn’t secure enough, how he’s funding this his development, and a coding style in Rust called Safe Rust.

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Featuring:

Jeremy Soller – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

redox-os.org

Redox book

Redox Patreon

Redox news

Redox on GitHub

Send an email to [email protected] to get involved in the Redox community

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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