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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find the idea of a modern practically usable OS really exciting, so this is awesome!

It says "Drivers run in Userspace" on the front page of Redox - what is the advantage of this? I don't know too much about drivers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The advantage is that drivers are isolated in separate processes with fewer permissions.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking forward to try Redox one day. Rustlang is the future.

I hope apps in this new OS can be just a single file package which can be downloaded and run. That's one major thing which MacOS (and Windows to some extent) got right. Package managers on Linux are a premature optimization dependency hell..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Linux distribution packages suffer from dependency hell because the C and C++ dependency management is manual, there's no good dependency manager on the C and C++ programming languages.

While the Rust programming language has automatic dependency management with Cargo, the best dependency manager in the history of computing.