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I expect this sort of work doesn't get enough praise because it's just the start of what a full OS would look like, but I think having OS kernels written with more memory safety is awesome and necessary.
What is the security model of Redox? We’ve heard a bunch recently about the capabilities security model in Fuschia/Zircon, which is the other new operating system that excites me. Can you compare the two?
We still need to do more work on it though.
I am the creator of Redox OS. It is a microkernel based operating system mostly written in Rust. Please ask any questions or make any comments you have about Redox! EDIT: I am going to sleep soon. I will be up in 8 hours, 7 A.M. Mountain Time.
I am the creator of Redox OS. It is a microkernel based operating system mostly written in Rust. Please ask any questions or make any comments you have about Redox! EDIT: I am going to sleep soon. I will be up in 8 hours, 7 A.M. Mountain Time.
Could you write default username/password on a release page? :)
The only way to change this at the moment is to edit `/etc/passwd`, where they are stored after being encrypted using argon2.
What are the potential areas where Redox could be beneficial ? I would love to run on Raspberry pi, older Androids or Routers etc. Is it doable?
I'm also curious about the benefits that redox offers vis-a-vis bare metal Linux (Alpine/Void etc)?
One of the coolest aspects of all of these tools are that they aren't exclusive to Redox. In fact, they are rather portable. For example, the new file system (tfs) can run on operating systems other than Redox. One of the team members wrote an "atomic hash table" for it, and it was open sourced as well. It even uses an open source hash function by the same author.
Congrats to the team. Writing an operating system is incredibly hard, and it's great to see something like this written in Rust. I'm a big fan of all of the core contributors, and can't wait to see where Redox goes.
What is the breakdown of the ISO size? It's now 430MB - what are all those bits? (I ask because, as a new OS, I'd expect it to be really tiny since it's so new.)
- 64 MB - Preallocated kernel buffers - 256 MB - Live filesystem - The rest - Running applications
Also, I ran the ISO in Virtual Box and it's far more than I thought it would be. It's not just a barebones kernel and shell, you actually included a simple window manager and some GUI applications! It booted nice and fast, too.
Great work.
I am the creator of Redox OS. It is a microkernel based operating system mostly written in Rust. Please ask any questions or make any comments you have about Redox! EDIT: I am going to sleep soon. I will be up in 8 hours, 7 A.M. Mountain Time.
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Could you write default username/password on a release page? :)
I have added it. The username is `user` with an empty password, or `root` with a password of `password`. The only way to change this at the moment is to edit `/etc/passwd`, where they are stored after being encrypted using argon2.
Nitpick: s/encrypted/hashed/