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Linus Torvalds challenged Linux haters to fork; someone did in Rust
Linus Torvalds dared critics to fork Linux, and a developer responded by rewriting Linux 0.11 in Rust. The project, called Linux 0.11 in Rust, is a faithful port of the early kernel version. It demonstrates Rust's potential for systems programming but remains a hobby project, not a threat to the mainline kernel.
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While the Rust rewrite is technically interesting, it's a nostalgic exercise on a 30-year-old codebase, not a serious fork of modern Linux.
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