News: 0001495416

  ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports

([Operating Systems] 5 Hours Ago September Status Update)


The Redox OS open-source Rust-written operating system project has published their September 2024 status update.

There continues being a lot of exciting work going into this open-source "Rust OS" project. During the month of September were a number of Redox OS kernel improvements including better panic stack trace handling, reducing the size of some CPU-specific code, better time precision, POSIX signals work, and other improvements. USB xHCI continues to be worked on for Redox OS and bringing the driver into compliance and getting it working on real hardware.

Redox OS's Relibc C library implementation has seen merged support for real-time POSIX signals, endian function support, poll behavior more closely matching the Linux system call, and other changes.

There's also been work on the RISC-V port of Redox OS with the port being started and improvements submitted for the Redox toolchain.

September did bring [1]the release of Redox OS 0.9 with a multitude of improvements. Rounding out the fun is hopes that QEMU will soon be ported to Redox OS. Neovim is also being ported over to Redox OS.

More details on the September happenings for Redox OS via the [2]Redox-OS.org blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-0.9-Released

[2] https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-240930/



Vorpal

hf_139

Quackdoc

oleid

If you have received a letter inviting you to speak at the dedication of a
new cat hospital, and you hate cats, your reply, declining the invitation,
does not necessarily have to cover the full range of your emotions. You must
make it clear that you will not attend, but you do not have to let fly at cats.
The writer of the letter asked a civil question; attack cats, then, only if
you can do so with good humor, good taste, and in such a way that your answer
will be courteous as well as responsive. Since you are out of sympathy with
cats, you may quite properly give this as a reason for not appearing at the
dedication ceremonies of a cat hospital. But bear in mind that your opinion
of cats was not sought, only your services as a speaker. Try to keep things
straight.
-- Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"