The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver.
Redox OS lead developer and System76 engineer Jeremy Soller has begun creating an Intel graphics driver for Redox OS as an alternative to the current generic and unaccelerated BIOS VESA / UEFI GOP display handling for this Rust open-source OS. Before getting too excited, at this stage the Redox OS Intel graphics driver is just around mode-setting support and doesn’t yet provide any hardware GPU acceleration. This initial Intel graphics driver also is just targeting the older Intel Kaby Lake and Tiger Lake integrated graphics generations for now and not the newer Arc Graphics.
In the December newsletter for Redox OS, they did show off this Intel GPU driver up and running on a System76 laptop with an external display:
Redox OS has also begun implementing some basic read-only APIs from the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) to help in simplifying graphics driver usage and porting.
Some other highlights from the Redox OS December 2025 newsletter includes dynamic linking support on ARM64, continued work on POSIX conformance, and continuous integration fixes. Plus various other kernel and Relibc improvements and more program porting.
