The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their December 2024 development recap. The developers involved did a great job ending out 2024 with a lot of exciting improvements for this scratch-based open-source operating system.
Some of the progress highlighted in the Redox OS report for December 2024 includes:
– Dynamic linking support for Redox OS continues to make “huge strides” and is compiling more GNU software like GCC, Binutils, Make, and Bash with dynamic linking.
– Fixing a regression in the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B support.
– Many improvements and clean-ups to the Redox OS video drivers.
– In addition to work on the graphics subsystem, the input subsystem has also seen a lot of refactoring.
– Window resizing support using VirtIO-GPU has been implemented and for the Redox OS guest video size to follow the QEMU window size on the host system.
– Many improvements to Relibc as their Rust-based libc implementation.
– The ifconfig tool for network management has been implemented on the Redox network stack.
– Redox’s ping tool for network testing has also been improved.
– The LZ4 compressor has been imported to Redox along with an OpenJazz demo and other program porting work.
– Documentation improvements.
More information on these great improvements made over the past month via the Redox-OS.org blog.
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