Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware
Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project.
Redox OS in recent weeks saw improvements for booting the operating system on real hardware, rather than just a virtual machine. There were boot fixes, updating against the latest Rust-OSDev ACPI crate to improve support for many systems, and reducing the boot time of computers with multiple CPU cores.
Redox OS in April also saw work to improve RISC-V hardware compatibility, the tmux terminal multi-plexer was ported to Redox OS, improved accuracy of CPU time stats, and better performance of the Orbital desktop by supporting partial window pixel updates.
Redox OS last month also saw many kernel improvements, including a memory leak fix, better multi-threading stability, addressing potential deadlocks, and other enhancements. The Bochs video driver has also been replaced by the VESA driver, among other code de-duplication improvements.
Last but not least, the Redox OS Relibc implementation for libc has seen a number of improvements.
More details on these Redox OS improvements over the past month can be found via Redox-OS.org.
Redox OS in recent weeks saw improvements for booting the operating system on real hardware, rather than just a virtual machine. There were boot fixes, updating against the latest Rust-OSDev ACPI crate to improve support for many systems, and reducing the boot time of computers with multiple CPU cores.
Redox OS in April also saw work to improve RISC-V hardware compatibility, the tmux terminal multi-plexer was ported to Redox OS, improved accuracy of CPU time stats, and better performance of the Orbital desktop by supporting partial window pixel updates.
Redox OS last month also saw many kernel improvements, including a memory leak fix, better multi-threading stability, addressing potential deadlocks, and other enhancements. The Bochs video driver has also been replaced by the VESA driver, among other code de-duplication improvements.
Last but not least, the Redox OS Relibc implementation for libc has seen a number of improvements.
More details on these Redox OS improvements over the past month can be found via Redox-OS.org.