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there might be various aspects considered "novel" but the angle I was intrigued conceptually (though not an expert in this area) is about memory safety and secu
by college_physics 4y ago
there might be various aspects considered "novel" but the angle I was intrigued conceptually (though not an expert in this area) is about memory safety and security. So Rust is somehow involved [0], thus breaking with the C heritage of linux (though apparently not exclusively) and another advertised security enhancement is object capabilities [1],[2] which is an old idea but apparently not widely implemented. To further confuse things there is also KataOS and involvement in sel4 [3]
[0] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/build/fuchsia_custom_rust?hl=en https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/build/fuchsia_cu...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model
[2] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/components/v2/capabilities https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/components/v2/capab...
[3] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-kataos-and-sparrow.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-kataos-...