Oreboot Is Taking Shape As Rust'ed, Purely Open-Source Focused Coreboot

[bachchain]

Rootboot.

Rooty Tooty Rusty Booty

[jjkk]

Oreboot similar to Libreboot is focused on targeting "truly open systems" as Coreboot without binary blobs.

Requires compiler which can not be built from source code without downloading a binary blob.

[bug77]

To be honest I may be a minority but I agree. "Rust" seems like a wrong name for a language as it's something undesired on your metals...

Not always. When copper "rusts", you leave that in place because it protects what's underneath
It does nothing to convey the whole thing is built around safety, I'll give you that.

[josh_walrath]

To be honest I may be a minority but I agree. "Rust" seems like a wrong name for a language as it's something undesired on your metals...

I disagree. It suggests the self-consciousness that any language and paradigm is destined for eventual ruin. Maybe it's also, as a low-level systems lang, a sly critique of coding "close to the metal", a necessary evil which it seeks to improve (and succeeds IMO -- it's C for the 21st century).

I hate what it's done with the word "rusty" though.

[duby229]

To be honest I may be a minority but I agree. "Rust" seems like a wrong name for a language as it's something undesired on your metals...

I really agree, Calx would have been so much better, Rust is iron calx. Plus it sounds more "computery" than rust.

[skeevy420]

To be honest I may be a minority but I agree. "Rust" seems like a wrong name for a language as it's something undesired on your metals...

I agree. As someone who welds, all rust means to me is "bust out the wire wheel".

[skeevy420]

Oreoboot

That's also what I though it said in the headline.

[tildearrow]

Also sounds awful

To be honest I may be a minority but I agree. "Rust" seems like a wrong name for a language as it's something undesired on your metals...

[tildearrow]

+1 for a RustyBoot!

A boot process that comes from the mainframes during the '60's.

[jo-erlend]

Clever names coming from the Rust community, I have to say.