Show HN: MesaOS – An operating system written from scratch in Rust

Hello! I'm a student from Spain and I'm the creator of MesaOS, an open-source operating system written from scratch in Rust for x86_64.

I've been working on it mostly by myself.

MesaOS currently has:

A hybrid kernel Preemptive multitasking A Linux driver shim with 400+ exported kernel symbols (still in development) HDA audio and WAV streaming A shell with around 82 commands VFS, RamFS and persistent initrd File persistence through automatic folder-to-ISO injection SMP / multicore support xHCI / USB 3.0 support

It works on QEMU and on my HP 15s-eq2xxx laptop.

Some of the things I'm currently working on are USB storage, TCP, Wi-Fi and more hardware support.

Wi-Fi is one of the harder problems for me right now. My laptop uses a Realtek RTL8822CE, and there isn't much information available about it.

The project is still very much a work in progress, but I've reached a point where I would like to have other people working on it with me. I'm especially interested in people who like operating systems, kernels, drivers, networking, Rust or low-level programming.

I'm also transparent about using AI during development. The source code is generated using language models based on my instructions. I handle the architecture design, debugging, hardware testing and integration myself.

There is also an English/Spanish Discord server for the project if anyone wants to discuss development or contribute.

Discord: https://discord.gg/sEaB7KAwtr

Show HN: MesaOS – An operating system written from scratch in Rust
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Yes. But only for the coding. The rest is still done by me (hardware testing, QEMU, debugging, instructions, ideas, and so on).

In one of his interviews, Linus suggested that next-gen OS would be written in Rust. You picked an interesting track, starred your repo!

I have forked, cloned, and built (had to pin a specific nightly Rust for it to build). When I run it, it crashed at login; I reran it with VNC, was able to login as root, issue ls and uptime, but then it crashed. My AI is debugging...

so the built-in nano helps a lot, since the help output scrolled off the screen. I tried to use head, less, and more. I could redirect help output to a file (but until I found nano, could not page that). I also looked for dd.

The VNC UI seems generally stable, I was able to log in as all three users, and issue many commands.

Is there a bundled assembler or compiler. How can I write apps for this? Do you have a way to cross-compile and mount a shared folder or scp binaries in?