Asterinas 0.19.0: Rust Kernel Gains Graphics and Arm Support
Translated by a model; the original is in Russian.
The Asterinas project, which is building a new operating-system kernel written in Rust, has published its 0.19.0 release. LWN covered the project back in 2025, and this update brings a round of notable additions.
The headline change is a new graphics subsystem capable enough to run X.org. The kernel also gains support for the 64-bit Arm architecture, which the developers describe cautiously as "minimal but usable." Virtualization support has been improved as well, alongside a number of other changes.
The brief announcement leaves the project's broader goals aside, but the arrival of a graphics stack and Arm support signals that this experiment in writing a kernel in Rust keeps moving from concept toward a practically workable system.
Source: LWN.net
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