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posted by martyb on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the progress++ dept.

Version 0.5 of Redox OS was released yesterday, which includes a new C library written in Rust and images based on new bootloaders for both coreboot and EFI.

It's taken a while since the previous release of Redox OS as they have been focusing their attention on Relibc, a C library implementation written within the Rust programming language. Relibc is now used as the operating system's default C library.

Redox OS 0.5 also includes improvements to its event system, Pthreads support was completed, better support for LLVM and LLVM-using projects like Mesa/LLVMpipe, improvements to EFI, and more.

Some new Rust-written packages for Redox OS include OpenGL wrappers, an audio library, and other additions. Outside of the Rust scope, Redox OS 0.5 adds in SDL2 packages, Cairo, FFmpeg, and many other important software options.

You can find the Redox OS 0.5 release notes here, and can find the 0.5.0 images here.

Previously: Redox OS Exploring Coreboot Payload
Microkernel, Rust-Programmed Redox OS's Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:25AM (10 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:25AM (#820023)

    Original article -> Phoronix article -> redox-os.org -> Redox-OS documentation -> Redox book -> "What Redox is", where I finally find out WTF this thing actually is (a Posix microkernel written in Rust), and why I don't care about it.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:53AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:53AM (#820036)

    It's not even planned to be POSIX compliant.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Tuesday March 26 2019, @11:03AM

      by driverless (4770) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @11:03AM (#820039)

      Oh, this page [redox-os.org] says "We have modest compatibility with POSIX, allowing Redox to run many programs without porting", so I assumed there'd be Posix there.

      If not then I'm even less interested in it.

    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:34PM

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:34PM (#820332)

      The hardware support is pretty limited too:

      There is no USB HID driver, so a USB keyboard or mouse will not work. There is a PS/2 driver, which works with the keyboards and touchpads in many laptops.

      I would have thought USB keyboard and mouse support would be a something to prioritize, but then I have never written an operating system, so what would I know?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Apparition on Tuesday March 26 2019, @12:03PM

    by Apparition (6835) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @12:03PM (#820054) Journal

    It's the second article published on Redox OS in a month so I didn't want to be redundant or seem like I'm trying to draw the summary out. But, and forgive me as I know this may seem like a big stretch, you could scroll down to the bottom of the summary and see links to prior Soylent News stories on Redox OS, one of which is titled "Microkernel, Rust-Programmed Redox OS's Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL." "Microkernel," "Rust-programmed." Huh. Then, I know this part is shocking, you could click the link to the old article which gives a summary of Redox OS.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by engblom on Tuesday March 26 2019, @01:37PM (2 children)

    by engblom (556) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @01:37PM (#820080)

    Whatever you think about Redox itself, I like the idea that someone has created a libc in Rust. This means that what they have created got the potential to be used by other OS. I think it is good to have an alternative with memory safety guaranties to "normal" libc (whatever it is gnu libc, musl or any other implementation).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @08:27AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @08:27AM (#820549)

      And then you have to think about /bootstrapping/ rust on any other system. That shit is ridiculous. Even more ridiculous than package-management tightly couple with the language. Every time I see a project written in rust/go/whatever other bullshit they came up with to make packaging a pain in the ass, I close the damn page because it's just not worth it.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:13PM (#820833)

        idk what the hell you're complaining about. You just install rust via your package manager and start using it. The crates are for building your apps with not necessarily for distributing end user software. When you write your app you can package the binary for whatever OS you want. What's the big fucking deal?

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:06PM (1 child)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:06PM (#820171) Journal

    Are you saying the microkernel is a bad thing?

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    • (Score: 2) by engblom on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:00AM

      by engblom (556) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:00AM (#820500)

      Are you saying the microkernel is a bad thing?

      No, I have nothing against microkernel. My answer was more of an answer to the parent post complaining about how he wasted his time checking out this project. I wanted to show him that there is a benefit of this project even if one would not like Redox OS itself.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:24AM (#820508)

    Read title=> it's an OS
    Read TFS=> they rewrite core libs in rust

    methinks it's a rust based OS.