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| u-root | mirage | |
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| 9 | 32 | |
| 2,437 | 2,429 | |
| 1.3% | 1.1% | |
| 9.7 | 8.7 | |
| 8 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| Go | OCaml | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | ISC License |
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u-root
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Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go
It looks similar to u-root https://github.com/u-root/u-root, yes, used as part of host firmware. There's a description of u-root in chapter 6 of https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7939-7, too.
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Gokrazy – Go Appliances
"A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go." https://github.com/u-root/u-root
- Gokrazy Is Cool
- O que vocês acham da linguagem Goolang?
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Is it possible to install a linux specific package on osx?
I am trying to build something with github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/strace, but the issue I am running into is that my dev environment is an ARM Mac, while the package is specific to Unix systems.
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Coreutils Rewritten in Rust
I've seem a few attempts. This is just one example: https://github.com/u-root/u-root/tree/master/cmds/core
- u-root – many Linux tools in a single Golang binary, initramfs, and bootloader
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Writing an init with Go (part 1)
Great material! This approach is also used in u-root - Golang busybox created for LinuxBoot. I really enjoy working with it so far!
mirage
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Gokrazy – Go Appliances
Interesting, and thanks.
I didn't know about those. I kind of thought you may have used MirageOS, which I had read about earlier. It is done in OCaml.
https://mirage.io/
- Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
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What's Zig got that C, Rust and Go don't have? [video]
Unix system programming in OCaml (2014)
https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/
"MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms."
https://mirage.io/
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PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model
That was/is part of the promise of the whole unikernel thing, no?
https://mirage.io/ or similar could then let you boot your database. That said, it's not really taken off from what I can tell, so I'm guessing there's more to it than that.
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Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V
MirageOS is not Rust, but in the ballpark!
https://mirage.io/
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Container runtime as a static binary?
OCaml MirageOS? https://mirage.io/
- OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out
- Ask HN: Operating Systems built with functional languages?
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Is there an operating systems that is a runtime of a programming language?
MirageOS is a runtime for OCaml to create unikernels. They describe themselves as "library operating system". Probably not quite what you were asking for, but I think it's quite interesting for certain use cases (e.g. running services as standalone unikernels in VMs or embedded devices instead of "traditional" programs on top of a general purpose OS).
What are some alternatives?
booster - Fast and secure initramfs generator
unikraft - A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.
dracut-sshd - Provide SSH access to initramfs early user space on Fedora and other systems that use Dracut
oberon-riscv - Oberon RISC-V port, based on Samuel Falvo's RISC-V compiler and Peter de Wachter's Project Norebo. Part of an academic project to evaluate Project Oberon on RISC-V.
nhi - :tv: Automatically capture all potentially useful information about each executed command (as well as its output) and get powerful querying mechanism
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
router7 - router7 is a small home internet router completely written in Go. It is implemented as a gokrazy appliance.
linuxkit - A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Mezzano - An operating system written in Common Lisp
nushell - A new type of shell
Lupine-Linux - Linux in Unikernel Clothing