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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ This page covers questions and answers for newcomers and end-users.
- [What is the purpose of Redox?](#what-is-the-purpose-of-redox)
- [What I can do with Redox?](#what-i-can-do-with-redox)
- [What is an Unix-like OS?](#what-is-an-unix-like-os)
- [How Redox is inspired by other systems?](#how-redox-is-inspired-by-other-systems)
- [How Redox was influenced by other systems?](#how-redox-was-influenced-by-other-systems)
- [What is a microkernel?](#what-is-a-microkernel)
- [What programs can Redox run?](#what-programs-can-redox-run)
- [How to install programs on Redox?](#how-to-install-programs-on-redox)
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- [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like)
## How Redox is inspired by other systems?
## How Redox was influenced by other systems?
### [Plan 9](http://9p.io/plan9/index.html)
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The most influential Unix-like system with a microkernel. It has advanced features such as system modularity, [kernel panic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_panic) resistence, driver reincarnation, protection against bad drivers and secure interfaces for [process comunication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication).
Redox is largely inspired by Minix - it has a similar architecture but with a feature set written in Rust.
Redox is largely influenced by Minix - it has a similar architecture but with a feature set written in Rust.
- [How Minix influenced the Redox design](https://doc.redox-os.org/book/ch04-01-microkernels.html)
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Redox follow the same principle, trying to make the kernel-space small as possible (moving components to user-space and reducing the number of system calls, passing the complexity to user-space) and keeping the overall performance good (reducing the context switch cost).
### [BSD](https://www.bsd.org/)
### [BSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution)
This Unix [family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix) included several improvements on Unix systems and the open-source variants of BSD added many improvements to the original system (like Linux did).
- [FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/) - Redox took inspiration from [Capsicum](https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?capsicum(4)) (a capability-based system) and [jails](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd_jail) (a sandbox technology) for the namespaces implementation.
- [FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/) - The [Capsicum](https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?capsicum(4)) (a capability-based system) and [jails](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd_jail) (a sandbox technology) influenced the Redox namespaces implementation.
- [OpenBSD](https://www.openbsd.org/) - Redox took inspiration from the [system call](https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2), [filesystem](https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2), [display server](https://www.xenocara.org/) and [audio server](https://man.openbsd.org/sndiod.8) sandbox and [others](https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html).
- [OpenBSD](https://www.openbsd.org/) - The [system call](https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2), [filesystem](https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2), [display server](https://www.xenocara.org/) and [audio server](https://man.openbsd.org/sndiod.8) sandbox and [others](https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html) influenced the Redox security.
### [Linux](https://www.kernel.org/)