FTL: A new operating system for clouds

 (ftl-os.org)

31 points | by romac 1 hour ago

8 comments

  • dekdrop 0 minutes ago
    written in rust, doesn't say written in rust on the site - i guess that phase is over
  • drybjed 1 hour ago
    Is it just a hobby, and won't be big and professional like gnu?
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    • baron3dl 12 minutes ago
      quick, let's find the author's shirtless beer drinking pictures before they get deleted
    • itsanaccount 49 minutes ago
      I dont think the kids are gonna get the reference.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 36 minutes ago
    So it's a microkernel...ish? And it runs Linux programs and supports enough features to serve its own website. Excellent; I hope it takes off.
  • romac 1 hour ago
    FTL v0.1.0 was just released, adding async Rust support (multi-thread Tokio runtime) and lots of missing pieces in the Linux compatibility layer.

    (not my project)

  • pmkary 8 minutes ago
    What a nice thing!
  • tekacs 55 minutes ago
    Sounds kinda like gVisor more than Unikraft? With a maybe-faster intercept path?
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    • eranation 40 minutes ago
      That was my first thought. I think adoption will increase if projects will have a clear FAQ about prior / related work, and not leave this to the reader (human or AI) to figure out.
  • rvz 36 minutes ago
    Maybe it is time to look at other new operating systems that are more memory safe by default and don't have any legacy bloat.

    Now that we have a KVM 0day + VM escape vulnerability [0] right now.

    [0] https://x.com/PaulosYibelo/status/2106378929158135903

  • IshKebab 58 minutes ago
    Is this a unikernel? Your ASCII art diagram is broken.