Redox OS 0.9.0

[Posted September 9, 2024 by jzb]

Version 0.9.0 of Redox OS, an open-source, Unix-like operating system written in Rust, has been released. Notable changes in this release include performance and stability improvements, better management of physical and virtual memory, bootloader improvements, and more. It also brings support for RustPython, Perl 5, Simple HTTP Server, the addition of several applications including GNU Nano, Helix, and the COSMIC Files, Editor, and Terminal applications. See the changelog section of the announcement for a full list of changes in the release.

Neat

Posted Sep 10, 2024 20:41 UTC (Tue) by python (guest, #171317) [Link] (3 responses)

But I do wonder about drivers and web browsing.

Those sorts of things are hard.

Neat

Posted Sep 11, 2024 8:42 UTC (Wed) by seodisparate (subscriber, #140849) [Link]

A while ago they anounced the start of some work to use existing drivers to use in Redox in an interesting way https://www.redox-os.org/news/rsoc-2023-eny-1/ . Later posts on their news blog indicates they got virtio qemu stuff working. It seems to be steadily chugging along, and will hopefully be on par with features.

Neat

Posted Sep 11, 2024 17:14 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (1 responses)

But I do wonder about drivers and web browsing.

The release note mentions improved "Linux/BSD" compatibility, so porting an existing browser should not be that difficult. (If you accept a non-Rust implementation, of course).

Neat

Posted Sep 13, 2024 7:26 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

Some of the other stuff they mention running ( like Perl for example ) are certainly not written in Rust. The whole point of Relibc is that Redox will be able to run regular ol' POSIX C software.

Of course, there are also Rust web engines like Servo, not that these are usable browsers at this point.