--- title: GitHub - Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs: Linux 0.11... description: linux-0.11-rs is a complete rewrite of the 1991 Linux 0.11 kernel in idiomatic Rust, targeting emulated i386 hardware via QEMU. The project preserves the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/github---poseidon-fan-linux-0-11-rs-linux-0-11-rewritten-in-idiomatic-rust-kernel-std-style-user--t3avsvqaf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GitHub - Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs: Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust: kernel, std-style user library, and 60+ coreutils — boots on i386 in QEMU. | daily.dev og:description: linux-0.11-rs is a complete rewrite of the 1991 Linux 0.11 kernel in idiomatic Rust, targeting emulated i386 hardware via QEMU. 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The project preserves the original kernel's semantics — processes, virtual memory with demand paging and CoW fork, Minix v1 filesystem, ATA disk driver, VGA/PS2 console, TTY layer, signals, and a full syscall table — while expressing them with modern Rust idioms, strong types, and clear module boundaries. It ships with a Rust std-style user-space library, 80+ coreutils, a POSIX-subset shell with pipelines, glob, and tab completion, plus one-command bootable image builds. End-to-end tests boot the kernel under QEMU and drive the serial console. Companion crates mbrkit and miniximg are published independently on crates.io. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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