stardust-oxide
Rust-based Unikernel (by StardustOS)
hermit-rs
Hermit for Rust. (by hermit-os)
| stardust-oxide | hermit-rs | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 123 | 1,588 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 0.0 | 9.2 | |
| 3 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
stardust-oxide
Posts with mentions or reviews of stardust-oxide.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-09.
- Stardust Oxide: I wrote a unikernel in Rust for my bachelors dissertation
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Help with rustc flags
What target? If you want x86-64 “bare metal” then Phil Opp’s guide on building an OS in Rust is what you want. I’m also working on a kernel in Rust so feel free to look at my project if you want a second example for project structure/etc.
hermit-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of hermit-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-23.
- Hermit: a Rust-based, lightweight unikernel
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Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
The rough Rust of this is https://github.com/hermit-os/hermit-rs
Though last I looked it wasn't nearly as mature as MirageOS.
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Fomos: Experimental OS, Built with Rust
This seems to match the definition of a unikernel. Here is another one in Rust: https://github.com/hermit-os/hermit-rs
What are some alternatives?
When comparing stardust-oxide and hermit-rs you can also consider the following projects:
rusty-hermit - Hermit for Rust. [Moved to: https://github.com/hermit-os/hermit-rs]
unikraft - A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
nanos - A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment