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zen

Experimental operating system written in Zig (by AndreaOrru)

Zig Kernel Os operating-system

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redox

Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox (by redox-os)

Redox Rust Microkernel operating-system

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zen		redox
	Project
2	Mentions	12
369	Stars	14,862
-	Growth	0.7%
0.0	Activity	9.6
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Assembly	Language	Shell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	MIT License

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.

zen

Posts with mentions or reviews of zen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-31.

Zen: Experimental operating system written in Zig
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2023
The wild world of non-C operating systems
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2022

redox

Posts with mentions or reviews of redox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-29.

Fomos: Experimental OS, Built with Rust
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2023

Redox is another full fledged OS written in rust by Pop OS developer
https://github.com/redox-os/redox
GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2023

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/
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?
6 projects | /r/rustjerk | 7 Mar 2023

Ah yes, std, that famous crate that is unusable for systems programming. God forbid anyone do any "systems" programming that uses std.
Planning to make a video on cool Rust apps focused on the end user. Make recommendations!
38 projects | /r/rust | 2 Nov 2022

Operating System: Theseus, Redox
The wild world of non-C operating systems
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2022

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
How far are we from writing Redox on Redox?
1 project | /r/Redox | 22 Dec 2021

Side note, blog posts may have been quiet but there's still been some commit activity here and there.
Porting QEMU to RedoxOS
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2021

>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?
Pop!_OS uses a lot of Rust
1 project | /r/rust | 12 Jun 2021

I think the guy behind RedoxOS works for them.
[ SECURITY ] Linux Is Not More Secure Than Other os
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 9 Apr 2021

redox os is rust operating system without c , here
I Want to start leaning OS development on microcontrollers, any advice?
7 projects | /r/microcontrollers | 31 Mar 2021

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

What are some alternatives?

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napi-rs - A framework for building compiled Node.js add-ons in Rust via Node-API

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serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞

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tock - A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers

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ACE3 - Open-source realism mod for Arma 3

book - The Rust Programming Language

A3Resupply - A lightweight script to resupply your squad!

blog_os - Writing an OS in Rust