LAlasiotus·Oct 28, 2026Submission
1 points · Open discussionmoturus
motor-os
Rust2024–2026
moturus / motor-os
motor-os
A simple, fast, and secure operating system for the cloud.
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8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.1KGitHub stars
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A simple, fast, and secure operating system for the cloud.
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesLorry: A smaller, stricter Rust package manger
2 points · Open discussionMotor OS website is now served from Motor OS VMs
15 points · Open discussionMotūrus OS (https://github.com/moturus/motor-os) has a newer microkernel.
In From L3 to seL4: 20 years of L4 microkernels (2013) [video]SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: Motūrus OS
Motūrus OS is a new operating system for VMs written in Rust. A lot of interesting things to do for someone interested in systems-level Rust projects, from a simple Elf loader to a crash-resistant filesystem.
Or just porting C stuff like vim.
https://github.com/moturus/motor-os
In Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)The lainding page at https://github.com/moturus/motor-os explicitly says that both networking and file I/O are slow and have to be improved. The only claim is about fast bootup, and the number is there, and can easily be verified.
Where do you see any unsupported claims re: performance?
In MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMsThe author wrote this on reddit:
> What does "Rust-first" mean here? It means not only that both the (micro) kernel and the drivers are implemented in Rust, but also that Rust is the first (and only, at the moment) language that userspace programs can be written in.
> Although technically one can reverse-engineer the Rust-based ABI and the provided Rust toolchain to write apps for Motor OS in e.g. C, that is some work. But standard Rust programs (using standard Rust library, without FFI) will just compile and run - see e.g. https://github.com/moturus/motor-os/tree/main/src/bin/httpd.
> This Rust-first approach is rather unique, as e.g. Redox uses relibc and C-based kernel ABI as the glue...
https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/190znk5/mot%C5%ABrus_...
In MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMsMotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs
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