Self-Hosting Rust on A Custom Kernel (English)

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Presented at In person Rust November 2026 at AWS in Tel Aviv on 2026.11.03

Kirill Maksimov

I am a software engineer from Tel Aviv. I did not intend to build an operating system but as things got going, I was interested how far I can push it and how hard can it be after all. I was interested in building a system that could modify and build itself and I got pretty far.

I built an operating system with a custom kernel that can run ssh, llama.cpp and some Linux software and I would like to showcase it and what I learned in the process: https://github.com/netoneko/akuma

The most difficult part that brought the most progress was a journey to self host the kernel, being able to build it from source using Rust and cargo.