Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
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This isn’t Linux, but Linux-like. Its a microkernel built from the rust programming language. Its still experimental, but I think it has great potential. It has a GUI desktop, but the compiler isn’t quite fully working yet.

Has anyone used this before? What was your experience with it?

Note: If this is inappropriate since this isn’t technically Linux, mods please take down.

    • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
      35·
      1 year ago

      Yes, as much as I appreciate memory safety and rust in particular. I’m very worried by this pivot away from copyleft and GPL. Specially the rewriting in rust phenomenon of fundamental stuff. It’s safer, yes, but they’re all pretty much non GPL and it seems very risky to me. Make no mistake, the industry is riding this wave to move away from copyleft to permissive licenses.

      I wish that people understood the importance of FSF and GNU

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Well that is rather insidious. Crap. They probably understand the reasons for the GPL very well. Doesn’t mean they support them.

        • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          I’m sure there’s some community pull as well, because most of the rust ecosystem seems to be converged on MIT. But what despairs me is the wilful sidelining of GPL and everything GNU by some open source community members/corporate people. So yeah, you’re probably right