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A new operating system kernel with Linux binary compatibility written in Rust.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2021-10-25 · latest 2025-11-28

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  1. How does this compare to https://github.com/nuta/kerla ?
  2. …two. I wonder if there are enough people interested to make this happen as a sustained project. ¹ https://github.com/nuta/kerla/
  3. I think this had already been attempted by the now-discontinued project [Kerla]( https://github.com/nuta/kerla ).
    comment by pizza234 · 2024-01-03 · in Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
  4. …kernel as well. That's a unique feature in the realm of educational kernels. There's also Kerla: https://github.com/nuta/kerla
    comment by higherhalf · 2023-01-08 · in Tilck – A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
  5. …agree that a full production replacement would be such a massive undertaking as to be impractical, https://github.com/nuta/kerla does something very like that - Linux userspace ABI on an all-new Rust kernel. (And even at this small scale,…
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2022-04-15 · in Rustaceans at the border
  6. …and try to recover in some way. Edit: for example, I just found this in the kerla project: https://github.com/nuta/kerla/blob/88fd40823852a63bd639e602b... That halts now, but it probably doesn't need to, or could do it conditionally based…
  7. …call [1]. Lastly, You can try this OS on SSH. Hope you enjoy :) ssh root@kerla-demo.seiya.me [1]: https://github.com/nuta/kerla/blob/main/kernel/syscalls/read...
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    Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility
    story by Klasiaster · 2021-10-25 · 194 comments