Rocky Linux creator built Rust kernel Ginux in 11 days with AI

Gregory Kurtzer, creator of CentOS and Rocky Linux, unveiled Ginux, an independent Rust-first x86-64 kernel that implements the Linux ABI. An OpenAI Codex agent running GPT-5.6 Sol produced roughly 139,000 lines of code and over 1,000 commits in 11 days; it currently runs only in QEMU with no GPU or NVMe support.

• Ginux is not a Linux fork: own memory, scheduler, filesystems and networking in Rust
• Linux ABI compatibility lets Rocky Linux 10 boot to multi-user.target
• About 139,000 lines and 1,000+ commits from GPT-5.6 Sol in 11 days
• Runs only in QEMU for now, with no GPU, NVMe or independent security audit