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I was reading this: http://www.redox-os.org/book/book/design/urls_schemes_resour... and I really got interested in the "everything is a URL" idea. But then I noticed that the most important parts of this text were missing :/ Perhaps somebody can clarify here.
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rust "unsafe" is not about proprietariness of the hardware. It's about doing lower level operations that, in order to express, the rust compiler's safety logic must be disabled.
You are right. Barebone stuff is usually unsafe. The point I'm trying to make is that open hardware could also be programmed in Rust, reducing the number of "unsafe" blocks in user applications. Software for proprietary hardware is usually written in unsafe C/C++.
I was reading this: http://www.redox-os.org/book/book/design/urls_schemes_resour... and I really got interested in the "everything is a URL" idea. But then I noticed that the most important parts of this text were missing :/ Perhaps somebody can clarify here.
There's a bit more info here: https://github.com/redox-os/redox/wiki/URL
I'm pretty impressed that 37 people are capable of writing an entire OS with a gui in under a year. Looks really cool.
I was reading this: http://www.redox-os.org/book/book/design/urls_schemes_resour... and I really got interested in the "everything is a URL" idea. But then I noticed that the most important parts of this text were missing :/ Perhaps somebody can clarify here.
There's a bit more info here: https://github.com/redox-os/redox/wiki/URL
The only odd part is that the modules (drivers) themselves are not referenced by URL, but only by a simple word (in the example "port_io").
Also, I wonder how we could combine drivers. For example, (theoretically) instead of using "https" as driver, we could compose it as "HTTP over TLS over TCP", and change any of those subcomponents as desired. With URLs this might become clumsy.
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As somebody who develops significantly complex in Node.js and considers operating systems to largely be black magic, I'd love to have a chat about this some day, and compare notes :)
Read the MINIX book. It's basically a walk-through (with source code) of entire operating system.
Great news! Now it's worth to learn Rust just to keep up with this project. Does Redox run in qemu only or also in VirtualBox? I tried it with all devices (USB, Network, etc.) disabled. Installation from ISO to /dev/sda worked fine but after reboot I got a hangup: "IDE Primary Master: Unknown Filesystem". Do I have to format the hardisk image with ZFS before installation?
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Presumably named after the redox reaction that causes iron to rust.
Not that it matters... Apparently rust-lang is named after the rust fungus not the chemical reaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%2...