Maestro - Introduction
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Maestro is a Unix-like kernel and operating system written from scratch in Rust

Enter Maestro, a unix-like monolithic kernel that aims to be compatible with Linux in order to ensure wide compatibility. Interestingly, it is written in Rust. It includes Solfége, a boot system and daemon manager, maestro-utils, which is a collection of system utility commands, and blimp, a package manager. According to Luc, it’s creator, the following third-party software has been tested and is working on the OS: musl (C standard library), bash, Some GNU coreutils commands such as ls, cat, mkdir, rm, rmdir, uname, whoami, etc… neofetch (a patched version, since the original neofetch does not know about the OS). If you want to test it out, fire up a VM with at least 1 GB of ram.

  • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
    1710·
    10 months ago

    It’s interesting, but with Linux and BSD already available in many different flavours do we really need it?

    I mean what use case would it be better in except maybe an extreme rust enthusiast.

    • AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Whats the need for it? Another great operating systems engineer emerging from it even though the project itself might not be ‘useful’. You only truly learn stuff when actively doing it.

      One day he might be a significant contributor to Linux!

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago
      1. Memory safety is super important
      2. Rust is far more approachable than C, so contribution and iteration is easier
      3. Did we really need an OS when Linux was released? It wasn’t the first.
      • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        It was the first fully working kernel licenced under a FOSS licence. So it was the first time someone could run a 100% open source OS.

        At least since maybe some really old mainframe back when stuff came with source code