Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

On the Redox site, creator Jeremy Soller gives an update on the Unix-like operating system written in Rust. It is running on a System76 Galaga Pro laptop: "This particular hardware has full support for the keyboard, touchpad, storage, and ethernet, making it easy to use with Redox." Meanwhile, he and the other Redox developers have been focusing on making it self-hosting: "Building Redox OS on Redox OS has always been one of the highest priorities of the project. Rustc seems to be only a few months of work away, after which I can begin to improve the system while running on it permanently, at least on one machine. With Redox OS being a microkernel, it is possible that even the driver level could be recompiled and respawned without downtime, making it incredibly fast to develop for. With this in place, I would work more efficiently on porting more software and tackling more hardware support issues, such as filling in the USB stack and adding graphics drivers. But, more importantly than what I will be able to do, is the contributions by others that will be unlocked by having a fully self-hosted, microkernel Operating System written in Rust, Redox OS."

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