Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

• Episode: Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust
• Website: The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
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• Duration: 01:18:46
• Published: 2018-01-19 21:00

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.