{"id":268295,"date":"2026-06-09T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/asterinas-0-18-released-for-rust-written-memory-safe-linux-alternative-os\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:35:11","slug":"asterinas-0-18-released-for-rust-written-memory-safe-linux-alternative-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/asterinas-0-18-released-for-rust-written-memory-safe-linux-alternative-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Asterinas-0.18\">Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Asterinas-0.18\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Asterinas-0.18<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 08:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Redox OS continuing to evolve quite nicely for that from-scratch, Rust-based open-source OS, Asterinas OS is also continuing to move forward for that Rust-based operating system striving for Linux compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>Asterinas OS continues to be developed with a state goal &#8220;toward a production-grade Linux alternative\u2014memory safe, high-performance, and more&#8221; While the Linux kernel has begun embracing Rust code, Asterinas is written in Rust with a modern architecture that aims to combine monolithic kernel performance with microkernel-inspired separation.  Asterinas OS implements hundreds of Linux system calls and aims for native compatibility with Linux environments, and as part of that a NixOS build with Asterinas.\n<\/p>\n<p>With Asterinas 0.18 announced last week, a major focus has been placed on running it as the guest OS for VM-based Kata Containers and Confidential Containers. In turn this led to Asterinas implementing namespaces support, cgroups, various VirtIO features, and more.\n<\/p>\n<p>This operating system update also brings a new NVMe driver, a re-implemented EXT2 file-system driver, and other updates.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=asterinas\" alt=\"Asterinas\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Asterinas also continues working on enabling support for more software packages to run on it, with some of the latest additions being Codex, QEMU, and Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Those wishing to learn more about this latest Rust-based operating system release can do so via the v0.18 announcement. An Asterinas NixOS x86_64 ISO for testing can be downloaded from GitHub. Development on Asterinas continues to be sponsored by Ant Group, Intel, and various Chinese universities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Asterinas-0.18\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Asterinas-0.18 Publish Date: 2026-06-09 08:43:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=asterinas","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-268295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268299,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268295\/revisions\/268299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}