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24 alternatives to Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release

Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox - Release 0.3.3 - Lower Memory Usage · redox-os/redox

Redox is a Unix-like operating system written in Rust, designed for developers interested in systems programming and operating system development. It provides a microkernel architecture with focus on safety and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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This Summer in Redox – A Rust Operating System▲20
The Redox official website
2016 · redox-os.org · its alternatives →
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FeOx – Fast embedded KV store in Rust▲37
FeOx (Iron-Oxide) is an ultra-fast, embedded and persisted KV store in pure Rust. - mehrantsi/feoxdb
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing▲313
Hello HN! Showing off the first version of Munal OS, an experimental operating system I have been writing in Rust on and off for the past few years. https://github.com/Askannz/munal-os It's an unikernel design that is compiled as a single EFI binary and does not use virtual address spaces for process isolation. Instead, applications are compiled to WASM and run inside of an embedded WASM engine. Other features: * Fully graphical interface in HD resolution with mouse and keyboard support * Desktop shell with window manager and contextual radial menus * PCI and VirtIO…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rust9x 1.76-beta – Rust on Windows 95+▲53
HN discussion about the initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273
2023 · seri.tools · its alternatives →
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Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix▲382
Hey HN, I'm Ron Efroni, CEO at Flox, and today we are releasing version 1.0 of our open source CLI, helping folks manage development environments everywhere.My own experience with development environments began with air-gapped systems, having to actually burn software to a CD to iterate over a very slow and expensive development cycle, sometimes reaching the server rack and realizing I have the wrong disk.... Fast forward to today and there are countless alternatives available backed by incredible compute resources, yet we somehow still find ourselves paying the price of long development…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust▲127
Chrome Devtools Protocol rust API. Contribute to mattsse/chromiumoxide development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely▲113
A Rust crate for containing memory leaks and fragmentation - brannondorsey/mem-isolate
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly▲207
To try it out, simply build the project yourself from source, or use attached bootable ISO image of the system (in Releases on Github) and run it in QEMU. https://blog.vxn.dev/rou2exos-rusted-edition
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions▲124
Redo is the ultimate tool to create reusable functions from your history in an interactive way - barthr/redo
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache▲69
A fast, multi-threaded Redis® and Valkey alternative written in Rust: drop-in compatible, with full-text and vector search built in - kividbio/kividb
2d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cronexpr, a Rust library to parse and iter crontab expression▲160
`cronexpr` is a library to parse and drive the crontab expression.
2024 · docs.rs · its alternatives →
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Flox▲375
Hey Everyone! Ron here, part of the NixOS Foundation and building Flox. Just coming out of this years NixCon and pretty excited to show hn below :) As of today, NVIDIA officially recognizes Canonical, SUSE, CIQ, and Nix—via Flox—as supported distributors for CUDA. Full blog - https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/developers-can-now-get-cud... This is a huge win for the Nix community. For years, CUDA on Nix was possible but painful—builds could take hours, and redistributing prebuilt binaries was blocked by NVIDIA's licensing requirements. NVIDIA's growing engagement with key…
2024 · flox.dev · its alternatives →
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RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust▲114
A free-range, non-GMO fork of busybox in 100% Rust 🦀 - samuela/rustybox
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust with 5M+ GET/s▲25
After the release of Feox DB (https://github.com/mehrantsi/feoxdb), I received a number of questions/requests about a potential service layer on top. I spent the last week and created this Redis compatible server for it which required 2 version releases on Feox itself as well. Benchmark: Feox: redis-benchmark -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 -t set,get -n 1000000 -r 1000000 -c 50 -P 64 -q SET: 4016064.25 requests per second, p50=0.639 msec GET: 5208333.50 requests per second, p50=0.335 msec Redis: redis-benchmark -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 -t set,get -n 1000000 -r 1000000 -c 50 -P 64…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hydrogen, a multithread non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust▲154
Multithreaded, non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust - nathansizemore/hydrogen
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library▲233
Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library - dragostis/chili
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust▲187
I built Fresh to challenge the status quo that terminal editing must require a steep learning curve or endless configuration. My goal was to create a fast, resource-efficient TUI editor with the usability and features of a modern GUI editor (like a command palette, mouse support, and LSP integration). Core Philosophy: - Ease-of-Use: Fundamentally non-modal. Prioritizes standard keybindings and a minimal learning curve. - Efficiency: Uses a lazy-loading piece tree to avoid loading huge files into RAM - reads only what's needed for user interactions. Coded in Rust. - Extensibility: Uses…
Dec 2025 · sinelaw.github.io · its alternatives →
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I wrote a tool in Rust for tracking all allocations in a Linux process▲113
allocscope - a memory tracking tool. Contribute to matt-kimball/allocscope development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Grsh – A high-performance shell for FreeBSD written in Rust▲50
I built GRSH because I wanted a modern, memory-safe shell that feels native to FreeBSD but works seamlessly on macOS. While there are many shells out there, GRSH is my take on a minimal, fast, and secure command interpreter written entirely in Rust. It's designed for users who want the safety guarantees of Rust without the overhead of more bloated alternatives. I'm currently working on the official FreeBSD port. I’d love to get feedback on the shell's behavior and performance from the community. Github: https://github.com/antoniomalara301289/grsh
Jan 2026 · grimreaper.icu · its alternatives →
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Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3▲185
I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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My microkernel-based OS built from scratch now has basic Unix commands▲69
This project contains no code from Linux, BSD, Minix, or any other OS. Everything up until this point is written entirely from scratch, including a pure microkernel (that only implements multiprocessor priority scheduling, memory management, and interprocess communication), a work-in-progress implementation of the standard C library, and a variety of servers that provide drivers and other essential OS functionality. At the time of writing this post, the servers provide drivers for the keyboard, NVMe SSDs (that works on real hardware), a Unix-like virtual file system (with a single root…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows▲99
:crab: 464b rust binary on windows. Contribute to mcountryman/min-sized-rust-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rux, a hobbyist microkernel written in Rust▲14
A hobbyist microkernel written in Rust, featuring a capability-based system similar to seL4. - sorpaas/rux
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust▲106
cuTile Rust provides a safe, tile-based kernel programming DSL for the Rust programming language. It features a safe host-side API for passing tensors to asynchronously executed kernel functions. - NVlabs/cutile-rs
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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