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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).

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Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros (securityaffairs.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

While there may be challenges and specific configurations required, you absolutely can compile Rust on and targeting to a musl-based system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I meant, Rust suppports vewer architectures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Rust actually supports most architectures(SPARC, AMD64/x86-64, ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V, and AMDGPU*). The limitations are from LLVM not supporting some architects(Alpha, SuperH, and VAX) and some instruction sets(sse2, etc.); z/Architecture is a bit of an outlier that has major challenges to overcome for LLVM-Rust. This is not going to be a problem when GCC-Rust is finished.

AMDGPU, *Not 100%, but works well enough to actually use in production and gets better all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! My bad, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Np. It's a common point of confusion.
You can use rustup target list to see all available architectures and targets.