oxide-and-friends VS xous-core

After listening to the Oxide and Friends episode about the Rust trademark dustup I thought some people in the Rust community might be interested in a concept I've been working on for a while called Persistent Democracy.

They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.

For anyone interested in the history of NeXT, I highly recommend Randall Stross's "Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing."[0] (And I regret that I may have personally had some role in the current outsized prices of used copies -- my apologies!) We also had a really interesting Twitter Spaces discussion of both the book -- and on NeXT more generally.[1]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/226316.Steve_Jobs_the...

[1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces/blob/master/...

Also, where are my manners?! Really glad you're enjoying our Twitter Spaces[0] -- and thank you for the kind words!

[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces

Xous, the OS that runs on the precursor, may be of interest to look at too:

https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core

It is written in Rust and is targeted for a RISC-V

In addition to phil-opp and redox, there's the Betrusted project's Xous kernel, which runs on a RISC-V core that runs on an FPGA. There's even an Xous Book.

You might be interested in Precursor and the Betrusted Platform.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

They are trying to have an hardware platform that can be inspected and it is based on an FPGA with a RISC-V Softcore.

Its by Bunnie, and he great talks about the choices and why he made them:

Keynote: Precursor - Trustable Open Hardware for Everyday Use - Bunnie Huang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5FEuGRrLE)

They are also doing their own Rust Message passing OS called Xous that might be of interest.

https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core

As for privacy and safety of people, https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core/issues/57 way past 1.0. Imagine that. Heh.

There are more good efforts, the BeTrusted guys are working on Xous, its a microkernel for a phone like device called the Precurser.

https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core

As a embedded service processor OS for a big server rack, Oxide Computer is working on 'HubrisOS'. They seem to have not released it yet, but that will be open sourced.

https://github.com/oxidecomputer

Those are two efforts where I know real resources are going into.