--- title: Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe... description: Asterinas OS 0.18 has been released, a Rust-written operating system targeting Linux compatibility with a memory-safe, high-performance design combining... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/asterinas-0-18-released-for-rust-written-memory-safe-linux-alternative-os-9attpqtc7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS | daily.dev og:description: Asterinas OS 0.18 has been released, a Rust-written operating system targeting Linux compatibility with a memory-safe, high-performance design combining... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/asterinas-0-18-released-for-rust-written-memory-safe-linux-alternative-os-9attpqtc7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9aTTPqtC7.png og:image:alt: Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Asterinas OS 0.18 has been released, a Rust-written operating system targeting Linux compatibility with a memory-safe, high-performance design combining monolithic kernel performance with microkernel-inspired separation. Key highlights of this release include support for running as a guest OS in VM-based Kata Containers and Confidential Containers, new namespaces and cgroups support, various VirtIO features, a new NVMe driver, a re-implemented EXT2 filesystem driver, and expanded software compatibility including Codex, QEMU, and Firefox. Development is sponsored by Ant Group, Intel, and Chinese universities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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