Gokrazy: A pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances
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HN comment orderThis is great! I think it could have uses far beyond the Raspberry Pi. As someone who's worked in the consumer electronics industry for years, I think we desperately need to rethink our approach to Linux-based electronics with respect to both the userland and the primary application. A legacy-free framework written in a safe language could go a long way to improving our currently lousy reputation with respect to security and reliability. (Yes, fresh code will have fresh bugs even…
I am very fond of the idea of a from-scratch userspace written entirely in Go. I've been dreaming of building something like gokrazy for servers. Or possibly something like Bottlerocket OS in Go. I experimented a few weeks ago with packaging a custom kernel and minimal Go init binary into a disk image bootable on GCE. No bootloader needed, just EFI loading the kernel directly.
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- 798
- Total comments
- 219
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-09 | Gokrazy – a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances | type0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2018-03-25 | Gokrazy: A pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliancesFirst breakout · Best thread | type0 | 366 | 87 |
| 2021-04-11 | Gokrazy: A pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3/4 appliances | ducktective | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-01-16 | Gokrazy – A Native Go Userland | robfig | 160 | 31 |
| 2023-10-17 | Gokrazy Go (Golang) AppliancesHall induction | bamazizi | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-12-19 | Gokrazy – Go AppliancesLatest 20+ point return | lagniappe | 262 | 101 |