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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Linux people doing Linux things, it seems.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Good news there's a project that aims to implement Unix in Rust called Redox and it's already a good enough project for studying microkernel design

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Bad license though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Good license to capitalists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not even, it will suffocate on its own by having the capitalists keeping their changes from each other. Like a bucket of crabs; where if one crab is about to get free the others grab onto it and pull it down.

Kernels really benefit from being "forced" to share the code changes as the GPL license, they are too tied to HW, and HW needs a lot of capital when iterating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Permissive licenses mean faster and more widespread adoption, it's up to project maintainers if the tradeoff is worth it. Ideally a company would realize that an open source part of their project probably isn't radically going to affect their revenue stream, but you don't just have to convince devs, you have to convince the suits and lawyers, and they will tell you to just build your own rather than give up any precious IP.