Jeremy Soller who is an engineer at System76 and manages a side hustle of leading development on the open-source, Rust-written Redox OS has shared the latest look at this open-source operating system with the System76 COSMIC desktop applications.

Redox OS down to its micro-kernel is leveraging Rust and thus the COSMIC apps -- also leveraging Rust -- are a great fit for this open-source OS. Here's a look at Redox OS from a few years ago when I last gave it a shot, rather basic:

Now here's the latest look at Redox OS that Solley posted to [1]X with the caption " This is Redox OS, a Rust and micro-kernel based operating system that I created, running three COSMIC DE apps (with only Rust dependencies) that I authored. Even the C library, relibc, is written in Rust. Are we OS yet? ":

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It's looking great. Jeremy in follow-up comments also added that they still need to port DRM kernel graphics drivers to make gaming more viable and self-hosting is "very close". Nice job to those that continue to be involved in this from-scratch Rust-written open-source OS.



[1] https://x.com/jeremy_soller/status/1799234577569137004

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=cosmic_redox_os_lrg