redox
firecracker
redox | firecracker | |
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12 | 75 | |
14,878 | 24,127 | |
0.3% | 1.2% | |
9.5 | 9.9 | |
about 23 hours ago | 5 days ago | |
Shell | Rust | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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redox
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Fomos: Experimental OS, Built with Rust
Redox is another full fledged OS written in rust by Pop OS developer
https://github.com/redox-os/redox
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GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
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/
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Rust is ugly, doesn’t even let you write simple data structures, unsafe rust is not even defined, makes the simplest things so hard to write and did I mention it’s ugly?
Ah yes, std, that famous crate that is unusable for systems programming. God forbid anyone do any "systems" programming that uses std.
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Planning to make a video on cool Rust apps focused on the end user. Make recommendations!
Operating System: Theseus, Redox
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The wild world of non-C operating systems
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
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How far are we from writing Redox on Redox?
Side note, blog posts may have been quiet but there's still been some commit activity here and there.
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Porting QEMU to RedoxOS
>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?
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Pop!_OS uses a lot of Rust
I think the guy behind RedoxOS works for them.
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[ SECURITY ] Linux Is Not More Secure Than Other os
redox os is rust operating system without c , here
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I Want to start leaning OS development on microcontrollers, any advice?
RedoxOS, an OS written in Rust A tutorial on making an OS in Rust, complwte with bootable source
firecracker
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Lambda Internals: Why AWS Lambda Will Not Help With Machine Learning
This architecture leverages microVMs for rapid scaling and high-density workloads. But does it work for GPU? The answer is no. You can look at the old 2019 GitHub issue and the comments to it to get the bigger picture of why it is so.
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Show HN: Add AI code interpreter to any LLM via SDK
Hi, I'm the CEO of the company that built this SDK.
We're a company called E2B [0]. We're building and open-source [1] secure environments for running untrusted AI-generated code and AI agents. We call these environments sandboxes and they are built on top of micro VM called Firecracker [2].
You can think of us as giving small cloud computers to LLMs.
We recently created a dedicated SDK for building custom code interpreters in Python or JS/TS. We saw this need after a lot of our users have been adding code execution capabilities to their AI apps with our core SDK [3]. These use cases were often centered around AI data analysis so code interpreter-like behavior made sense
The way our code interpret SDK works is by spawning an E2B sandbox with Jupyter Server. We then communicate with this Jupyter server through Jupyter Kernel messaging protocol [4].
We don't do any wrapping around LLM, any prompting, or any agent-like framework. We leave all of that on users. We're really just a boring code execution layer that sats at the bottom that we're building specifically for the future software that will be building another software. We work with any LLM. Here's how we added code interpreter to Claude [5].
Our long-term plan is to build an automated AWS for AI apps and agents.
Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback!
[0] https://e2b.dev/
[1] https://github.com/e2b-dev
[2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
[3] https://e2b.dev/docs
[4] https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/messaging.ht...
[5] https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook/blob/main/examples/c...
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Fly.it Has GPUs Now
As far as I know, Fly uses Firecracker for their VMs. I've been following Firecracker for a while now (even using it in a project), and they don't support GPUs out of the box (and have no plan to support it [1]).
I'm curious to know how Fly figured their own GPU support with Firecracker. In the past they had some very detailed technical posts on how they achieved certain things, so I'm hoping we'll see one on their GPU support in the future!
[1]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/11...
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MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs
I pass through a GPU and USB hub to a VM running on a machine in the garage. An optical video cable and network compatible USB extender brings the interface to a different room making it my primary “desktop” computer (and an outdated laptop as a backup device). Doesn’t get more silent and cool than this. Another VM on the garage machine gets a bunch of hard drives passed through to it.
That said, hardware passthrough/VFIO is likely out of the current realistic scope for this project. VM boot times can be optimized if you never look for hardware to initialize in the first place. Though they are still likely initializing a network interface of some sort.
“MicroVM” seems to be a term used when as much as possible is stripped from a VM, such as with https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
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Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive
According to their own FAQ it is indeed: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...
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Sandboxing a .NET Script
What about microVMs like firecracker?
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We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Dynamic memory management - Firecracker's RAM footprint starts low, but once a workload inside allocates RAM, Firecracker will never return it to the host system. After running several workloads inside, you end up with an idling VM that consumes 32 GB of RAM on the host, even though it doesn't need any of it.
Firecracker has a balloon device you can inflate (ie: acquire as much memory inside the VM as possible) and then deflate... returning the memory to the host.
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...
- I'm looking for a virtual machine that prioritizes privacy and does not include tracking or telemetry.
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Neverflow: Set of C macros that guard against buffer overflows
Very few things in those companies are being written in Rust, and half of those projects chose Rust around ideological reasons rather than technical, with plenty of 'unsafe' thrown in for performance reasons
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/search?q=...
The fact that 'unsafe' even exists in Rust means it's no better than C with some macros.
Don't get me wrong, Rust has it's place, like all the other languages that came about for various reasons, but it's not going to gain wide adoption.
Future of programming consists of 2 languages - something like C that has a small instruction set for adopting to new hardware, and something that is very high level, higher than Python with LLM in the background. Everything in the middle is fodder.
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Do you use Rust in your professional career?
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker is the one that comes to mind, but most of these are internal.
What are some alternatives?
rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutorials - :books: Learn to write an embedded OS in Rust :crab:
cloud-hypervisor - A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
bottlerocket - An operating system designed for hosting containers
tock - A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers
gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers
cli-guidelines - A guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
libkrun - A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities
book - The Rust Programming Language
krunvm - Create microVMs from OCI images
blog_os - Writing an OS in Rust
deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.