It's just an immutable Arch Linux based distro using distrobox to provide the other distro packages. It has some pretty nice polish & the blend package manager seems good, but it's really nothing I can't do myself with some time; even if it's a little crude compared to what he has here.
I don't find it the least bit interesting. Rust is good for reducing memory related bugs, it's not like many of these projects require that and it's not like you can't have the same level of safety using other languages if you have quality code. I'm not hating on rust, it's a plenty fine language with great safety and features. It's just irrelevant to most of the projects listed.
Flight tracking data is publicly available. All this dude did was tweet it. There's no legal question here. If anyone is the idiot, it's Musk for going back on his word.
That and technically he was already aware of it and enabling it. Besides the fact that him tweeting location and time of his children (not his utterly unrelated aircraft) isn't a problem when he is doing it himself.
Go ahead and rewrite 30+ million lines of C code in Rust, LMAO.
It's not going to happen, Rust support is being added for new code, not specifically to rewrite the kernel.
I mean, Redox is cool but it's not going to replace real, full-fat kernels. Linux is just as secure (if not more secure) than Apple's XNU kernel, or Microsoft's NT kernel, in that respect.
The Linux kernel has the best security you can get with a C based monolithic kernel in production. Vulnerabilities often get patched hours to at worst a few days after they become disclosed; Which is faster than NT & XNU which often
can take from weeks to months, and even a year or more in some past cases; which makes sense because they have limited dev power while Linux is the largest collaborative project on the planet.
The new kernels simply aren't production ready except for some niche areas, while Linux is used anywhere from PC, Servers, Embedded Devices, Supercomputers, The National Space Station, to even NASA's Mars Helicopter.
The largest security problem the Linux kernel faces to date is memory unsafety mistakes, and is where Rust comes in.
Rust's approach to memory safety is from what I can tell a match made in heaven for Linux kernel development and is very likely going to greatly reduce the amount of memory unsafety bugs introduced into the production code, but time will tell.
On the flip Rust in Android has had a great impact on reducing memory unsafety bugs; which is very good news and gives us measurable data on the potential impact of Rust in Linux.
Critical Linux vulnerabilities often get livepatched in a number of hours, the NT kernel and XNU kernel normally takes months to roll out patches. You don't seem to know what you're talking about here, so I'm not going to provoke you any further.
