Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port
Developers behind Redox OS, the original open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language, have ported Wayland to it with initially getting the Smallvil Wayland compositor up and running along with the Smithay framework and the Wayland version of the GTK toolkit.
The Redox OS project published their November 2025 status update where one of their main accomplishments for the past month is getting these initial Wayland components up and running on it. Before getting too excited though, they note that the Wayland compositor's performance is "not adequate" and thus more work to do on their Wayland support but an exciting first milestone:
Redox OS developers also have been able to bring over the WebKitGTK browser engine to Redox on the GTK3 front-end. For those not interested in Wayland, Redox developers have also ported over the MATE desktop environment with its X11 session for that old GNOME 2 forked desktop.
Redox OS has also been making various driver improvements and other system enhancements as outlined on the Redox-OS.org blog.
The Redox OS project published their November 2025 status update where one of their main accomplishments for the past month is getting these initial Wayland components up and running on it. Before getting too excited though, they note that the Wayland compositor's performance is "not adequate" and thus more work to do on their Wayland support but an exciting first milestone:
Redox OS developers also have been able to bring over the WebKitGTK browser engine to Redox on the GTK3 front-end. For those not interested in Wayland, Redox developers have also ported over the MATE desktop environment with its X11 session for that old GNOME 2 forked desktop.
Redox OS has also been making various driver improvements and other system enhancements as outlined on the Redox-OS.org blog.