Redox gets network booting, work on UNIX domain sockets continues
Redox continues to make progress, and as another month has passed us by, it's time for another monthly update. This past month, the focus has been on UNIX domain sockets, which are needed for Redox' goal of running Wayland.
As we continue to move forward with our plans for Wayland, a key technology for
Redox gets X11 support, GTK3, and Mesa3D EGL
We've cleared another month by the skin of our teeth, so it's time for another month of progress in Redox, the Rest-based operating system. They've got a big one for us this month, as Redox can now run X11 applications in its Orbital display server, working in much the same way as XWayland. This X11 support includes DRI, but it doesn't yet fully sup
https://www.osnews.com/story/142504/redox-gets-x11-support-gtk3-and-mesa3d-egl/
Redox gets services management, completes userspace process manager
Can someone please stop these months from coming and going, because I'm getting dizzy with yet another monthly report of all the progress made by Redox. Aside from the usual swath of improvements to the kernel, relibc, drivers, and so on, this month saw the completion of the userspace process manager.
This month in Redox, March 2025
Another month, another month of Redox improvements and bug fixes. This month saw a ton of work on process management as part of the NLnet grant, massive improvements to the USB stack, including a USB hub driver, as well as the usual kernel and driver improvements. On top of all this work, there's the usual long list of bugfixes and smaller improvements.
https://www.osnews.com/story/142073/this-month-in-redox-march-2025/
Chat, what's odds RedoxOS works on this 2015 Macbook? It's struggling a bit much these days and is definitely falling out of vendor OS support...
Shocked that I can actually boot Redox OS into a GUI on a decomposing Lenovo laptop I have lying around using the live image.
Feels very fresh, but stable. Like my first experience with Linux decades ago. However, the laptop's Ethernet port is busted, so no networking, which puts a damper on testing things. But I am certainly open to trying this OS out again when it matures further. #RedoxOS #Rustlang
Redox continues adding dynamic linking support
These months are coming and going way too fast, for a whole variety of reasons, so we've got another month of improvements for Redox, the operating system written in Rust. I February, January's work on dynamic linking continued, adding support for it to the recipes for Cargo, LLVM, Rust, libssh2, OpenSSL, zlib, COSMIC Terminal, NetSurf, libpng
https://www.osnews.com/story/141853/redox-continues-adding-dynamic-linking-support/
Redox’ relibc becomes a stable ABI
The Redox project has posted its usual monthly update, and this time, we've got a major milestone creeping within reach.
Thanks to Anhad Singh for his amazing work on Dynamic Linking! In this southern-hemisphere-Redox-Summer-of-Code project, Anhad has implemented dynamic linking as the default build method for many recipes, and all new porting can use dynamic li
https://www.osnews.com/story/141711/redox-relibc-becomes-a-stable-abi/
Spun a RedoxOS VM today to poke it. Looks cool but some stuff was straight up broken, might faff about with the VM settings to see if I can get it in better shape.
POSIX conformance testing for the Redox signals project
The Redox team has received a grant from NLnet to develop Redox OS Unix-style Signals, moving the bulk of signal management to userspace, and making signals more consistent with the POSIX concepts of signaling for processes and threads. It also includes Process Lifecycle and Process Management aspects. As a part of that proje
https://www.osnews.com/story/141377/posix-conformance-testing-for-the-redox-signals-project/
RISC-V Redox runs on x86-64 Redox
Every time a new Redox monthly report comes out, I'm baffled by the fact we've apparently rounded another month. They just keep on coming and going, don't they? And I even turned 40 this 1 December, so it hits even harder this time. I'm now as old as I remember my parents were in some of my oldest memories, and now I've got two kids of my own. Wild. Time isn't supposed
https://www.osnews.com/story/141287/risc-v-redox-runs-on-x86-64-redox/
Imagine a future where we are developing on a #System76 computer running #RedoxOS with #COSMICdesktop and either a #alacritty or a #wezterm terminal running #nushell with #zellij as the multiplexer and #helixeditor as the development environment.
Running #rustlang from top to bottom on your computer. Hopefully it's a future not too far away.
Redox runs on RISC-V, boots to GUI login on Raspberry Pi 4
Another month lies behind us, so another monthly update from Redox is upon us. The biggest piece of news this time is undoubtedly that Redox now runs on RISC-V - a major achievement.
Andrey Turkin has done extensive work on RISC-V support in the kernel, toolchain and elsewhere. Thanks very much Andrey for the excelle
https://www.osnews.com/story/141076/redox-runs-on-risc-v-boots-to-gui-login-on-raspberry-pi-4/
@cameronbosch @funkybuddha @itsfoss That being said AFAICT #RedoxOS at least has a #GUI, so unlike #OS1337 there's way less work necessary to build applications for it.
@cameronbosch @funkybuddha @itsfoss exactly that...
Not to mention they have to account for #RedoxOS's specific #API|s & #ABI|s and potentially statically compile in all their dependencies (similar to how I demand it for @OS1337)!
Redox’ progress in September 2024
Hot on the heels of releasing Redox 0.9.0, the team is back with yet another monthly update. Understandably, it's not as massive of an update as other months, but there's still more than enough here. There's the usual bug fixes and small changes, but also more work on the port to RISC-V, the QEMU port (as in, running QEMU on Redox), a bunch of improvements to Relibc,
https://www.osnews.com/story/140850/redox-progress-in-september-2024/
Redox 0.9.0 released
It's been two years, but we finally have a proper new Redox release: the Redox team released version 0.9.0 today. Since we've been covering all the monthly progress reports from this Rust-based operating system for a long time now, we've already covered most of the improvements in this new release, so if you've been following along there shouldn't be any major surprises in here, but let's do a
Redox gets HTTP server, wget, UEFI improvements, and much more
In line with the release of the COSMIC alpha, parts of which are also available for Redox, we've got another monthly update for the Rust-based operating system. First, in what in hindsight seems like a logical step, Redox is joining hands with Servo, the Rust-based browser engine, and they proposed focus will be on
https://www.osnews.com/story/140455/redox-gets-http-server-wget-uefi-improvements-and-much-more/
Redox secures more funding deals, gives UI small makeover, and more
Another month, another report from the Redox team. The Rust-based operating system saw another active month, including getting a whole bunch of new funding deals for specific features, such as adding UNIX-style signals to Redox, as well as the further development of Termion, a Redox project that is "a pu
Redox replaces core applications with COSMIC applications
Another month, another Redox progress report. The Rust-based operating system, headed by system76 engineer Jeremy Soller, has made a big move by replacing Redox' Orbital file manager, text editor and terminal by their COSMIC counterparts, COSMIC Files, COSMIC Editor and COSMIC Terminal, in the default Redox installation.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139868/redox-replaces-core-applications-with-cosmic-applications/
