redox VS bubblewrap

Redox is another full fledged OS written in rust by Pop OS developer

https://github.com/redox-os/redox

Even in the noncommercial world, Hurd's gone precisely nowhere. RedoxOS is a toy and had a GUI within a year or so. Brutal got in within two. SerenityOS not only built a GUI but the beginnings of the first greenfield web browser to gain any semblance of modern standards support in the past several decades. Honestly, what's Hurd doing wrong to flounder so hard?

[0] https://github.com/redox-os/redox/releases/tag/0.0.3

[1] https://github.com/brutal-org/brutal/releases

[2] https://serenityos.org/happy/1st/

Ah yes, std, that famous crate that is unusable for systems programming. God forbid anyone do any "systems" programming that uses std.

Operating System: Theseus, Redox

Looks like C++ to me!

And my point is that when you mention OS-es like Mezzano (3k stars on Github, a dozen contributors [1]) and Redox (13k stars, 80 contributors [2]), but don't mention Serenity (18k stars, over 100 contributors [3] (Github limits this view to the top 100)) it seems funny.

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Kernel/Ar...

[1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/graphs/contributors

[2] https://github.com/redox-os/redox/graphs/contributors

[3] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/contributors

Side note, blog posts may have been quiet but there's still been some commit activity here and there.

>I wish opportunities had been around when I was learning to program.

And yet now, we have plenty of projects and nobody contributing.

https://github.com/redox-os/redox/graphs/contributors

This graph doesn't look so healthy. Projects with one major contributor tend to die the moment that contributor loses interest.

Which leads me to wonder, if rust is so popular, and this is one of the most relevant rust projects in the wild, why is this essentially a single contributor repo? Linus didn't write Linux by himself. Redox is never going to happen with a single developer.

Doesn't anyone want a memory safe OS and micro kernel? What does this say about the demand for memory safe systems languages?

I think the guy behind RedoxOS works for them.

redox os is rust operating system without c , here

RedoxOS, an OS written in Rust A tutorial on making an OS in Rust, complwte with bootable source

Nothing nix specific but you may be interested in https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

Recently, I came across Chainguard and wrote the article How to build Docker Images with Melange and Apko. As a fervent supporter of Kubernetes and GitLab CI, I was eager to experiment with building images using Melange in this particular setup. GitLab's shared Runners work seamlessly with Bubblewrap, eliminating the need for additional configurations. This post is intended for enthusiasts like myself, interested in hosting their own Kubernetes Runners and leveraging the Kubernetes Runner Type of Melange.

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This is basically manually invoking what Flatpak does:

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

This is also useful for more than just security. E.G., you can test how your app would behave on a fresh install by masking your user configuration files. I personally also have a tool that uses it to basically bundle all dependencies from an entire Linux distribution in order to make highly portable AppImages— Been meaning to post that, will get around to it eventually maybe.

The flags above should hide your user data (`--tmpfs`), disable network access (`--unshare-all`), hide/virtualize devices and OS state (`--dev` and `--proc`), and make the rest of the root filesystem read-only (`--ro-bind`­— Including the insecure X11 socket in `/tmp`, which you might want to expose for GUI apps).

Check them against `bwrap --help`; I might have omitted one or two more things you'd need.

While trying to find out more comparison information, found this light on details issue:

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/issues/81

It mentions nsjail and minijail.