Redox OS

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1. You should check this - https://www.redox-os.org/ . There are some folks who wrote from scratch.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Operation Moonshot: Can Claude Rewrite Linux in Rust?”

2. Then use Redox OS, or convince Torvalds to merge Asterinas' memory handling code into Linux.

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto”

3. interesting alternatives with good momentum (Redox and Genode in particular)

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more”

4. Torvalds needs to borrow Rust code from Asterinas (and maybe Redox) ASAP.

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers”

5. I think this stance is ethically good, but technically irresponsible.

   Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy”

6. I love projects like Redox that try to do their own thing

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Hard Rust requirements from May onward”

7. This feels like the newest form of OSS virtue signaling.

   Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy”

8. There are still newer OSes try like Redox or Fuchsia.

   Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “C Isn't a Language”

9. the code in the Redox system is generally good

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Ion: Modern System Shell in Rust”

10. They even exist, like Alpine, OpenBSD, RedoxOS

    Mixed · May 2026 · in “Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel Vulnerabilities”

11. they will become even more of a niche project

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy”

12. Glad to see they are applying some rigor

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy”

13. but then got stuck on multi-cpu assembly

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy”

14. This is great work by the Redox team.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary”

15. which are built on better principles

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead”

16. Redox would fare much better.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Intel's Panther Lake Chip is its biggest win in years”

17. they remain confined to niche applications because none of them has been designed to be incorporated in a framework

    Criticizes · Jul 2026 · in “Maybe we should revisit microkernels”

18. redox didn't even support usb devices

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental”

19. Redox is a hobby project, and, while it's very cool, I'm not sure it has a strong utility proposition.

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy”

20. I think the Rust folks should go all-in on Redox and fix their tool optimization issues

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF”

21. uncovered 20 concurrency bugs across 12 modules in projects like Redox OS and Tock

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Memory Safety”

22. Plan9 is more Unix than Unix and that's indeed better. Redox OS, too.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Linux from Scratch Ends SysVinit Support”

23. There exist several microkernels that don't suffer much from overhead

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Maybe we should revisit microkernels”

24. I got into kernel dev partly due to zfs and partly due to Redox OS

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Our $445M Series D”

25. The Rust crustaceans should apply their knowledge to Redox OS

    Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware”

26. These days it's better to invest into Redox OS

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”

27. they seem to be doing decently well

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental”

28. You already have what you wish for.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental”

29. They are further along that road.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Hard Rust requirements from May onward”

30. supporting an OS with less reputation and stable footing like Redox

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Hard Rust requirements from May onward”

31. they stuck with Make, which I think was a bad decision

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?”