rhabarba to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 months agoRust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square215fedilinkarrow-up1448arrow-down112file-textcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.zip
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minus-squarePureTryOutlinkfedilink14•2 months agoI mean, it is. RedoxOS is just that. But it’s not Linux and that means a lot of things.
minus-square@Telorand@reddthat.comlinkfedilink1•2 months agoMaybe this is the fork in the road for something new. These circumstances were kind of how GNU/Linux was born, after all.
minus-square@entropicdriftlink1•2 months agoRedox is also a microkernel architecture, which will always fundamentally have worse performance than a monolithic kernel design. It might be more secure, but it will never catch Linux’s performance even if all Linux development stopped today
I mean, it is. RedoxOS is just that. But it’s not Linux and that means a lot of things.
Maybe this is the fork in the road for something new. These circumstances were kind of how GNU/Linux was born, after all.
Redox is also a microkernel architecture, which will always fundamentally have worse performance than a monolithic kernel design. It might be more secure, but it will never catch Linux’s performance even if all Linux development stopped today