The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is now able to leverage Cargo and the Rust compiler “rustc” itself running within this platform. Plus they also made a heck of a lot of other improvements too over the course of the past month. Today they published a status update to outline all of the promising advancements made to this independent OS so far in 2026.
As a big milestone reached in January, Cargo and the rustc compiler are now working on Redox itself. You are now able to compile your favorite Rust command-line and text user interface (TUI) programs on Redox. Redox developers achieved success on their third attempt to get the Rust compiler and Cargo running under Redox.
Getting Cargo and rustc working on Redox itself required addressing a varity of kernel, signals, and networking issues. With getting Cargo and the Rust compiler working on Redox OS itself, Anhad Singh was then able to submit the first merge request from Redox OS itself. Redox was running under QEMU and using COSMIC Edit as the code editor. The merge request was a fix for Relibc.
Redox OS has also seen work on capability-based security infrastructure, proper OpenSSH support, VPS support with a Vultr VM, and a significant reduction in Redox’s USB input latency. The input latency dropped from around 100 ms to 30 ms.
Redox OS rounded out its busy month with debugging improvements, a boot environment text editor for adjusting boot environment variables, and various kernel and driver improvements. There is also support now for PS/2 touchpads and more PS/2 devices.
More details on the many exciting changes for Redox OS over the course of January via the Redox-OS.org blog.
