We talked with Jeremy Soller, the BDFL of Redox OS, a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microke...

Very interesting and understandable explanations of low level architecture and filesystems, namespaces, userspace, kernel functions, drivers etc.

Highly recommend!

  • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
    121·
    6 months ago

    Redox doesnt seem secure at all to me, i tried it out in a VM today and there was a publicly accessible file at the root of the file system containing unhashed credentials

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
      8·
      6 months ago

      Very interesting, please report that to them, it may be because of some experimental stage.

      For example an installation media needs some form of accessible first user creation. Anaconda etc may be more advanced here.

    • Ashley
      1·
      6 months ago

      I imagine their focus is elsewhere. They probably just wanted a proof of concept login system to test things.