Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust (Changelog Interviews #280)

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 info@redox-os.org to get involved in the Redox community

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!