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Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust. (blog.lenot.re)

submitted 10 months ago by Gemini24601@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Enter Maestro, a unix-like monolithic kernel that aims to be compatible with Linux in order to ensure wide compatibility. Interestingly, it is written in Rust. It includes Solfége, a boot system and daemon manager, maestro-utils, which is a collection of system utility commands, and blimp, a package manager. According to Luc, it’s creator, the following third-party software has been tested and is working on the OS: musl (C standard library), bash, Some GNU coreutils commands such as ls, cat, mkdir, rm, rmdir, uname, whoami, etc… neofetch (a patched version, since the original neofetch does not know about the OS). If you want to test it out, fire up a VM with at least 1 GB of ram.

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Contributing to Linux can be extremely daunting. Refactoring can be as well. Rust makes both of those a LOT easier. If a project is written in Rust instead of C there will be many more potential contributors and flexibility.

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And Rust has a restrictive trademark policy which could theoretically cause problems. Especially because of how full the source code of Rust is of the trademarks.

Just, why, Mozilla?