CentOS co-founder builds Ginux kernel with Codex in 11 days
11/03/2026 — 11/04, 16:22·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- According to InfoQ, CentOS co-founder Gregory Kurtzer used Codex over 11 days to write around 139,000 lines of Rust code, building the stand…
Latest turnGregory Kurtzer, a co-founder of CentOS, says he used Codex to write roughly 139,000 lines of Rust in 11 days, producing Ginux — an independent x86-64 kernel that boots Rocky Linux 10 and runs systemd. The kernel implements the Linux ABI, so existing Linux binaries run on it unmodified.
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Gregory Kurtzer, a co-founder of CentOS, says he used Codex to write roughly 139,000 lines of Rust in 11 days, producing Ginux — an independent x86-64 kernel that boots Rocky Linux 10 and runs systemd. The kernel implements the Linux ABI, so existing Linux binaries run on it unmodified.
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Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of CentOS and founder of Rocky Linux, has demonstrated Ginux, a new operating system kernel built in 11 days with AI agents doing nearly all of the coding. The kernel contains no Linux kernel code yet boots Rocky Linux 10. It remains a research prototype.
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