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Redox OS Gets COSMIC Reader Working, Other Improvements To This Rust OS

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The open-source Redox OS operating system project written in the Rust programming language is out with its status update covering August 2025.

Redox OS continues making progress for this original, from-scratch Rust open-source operating system. Some of the changes that took place over the past month included:

- Along with other COSMIC desktop components already ported and running on Redox OS, the COSMIC Reader document reader app is now working as well.

- Redox hired a new part-time build engineer around this operating system.

- Various Redox OS driver improvements.

- Enabled QEMU UEFI by default for x86_64.

- Fixed multi-display support on QEMU BIOS.

- A variety of improvements to Relibc as its libc implementation.

- Fullscreen support is implemented for its Orbital GUI.

- A variety of build system improvements as well as enhancing the documentation.

More details over on the [1]Redox-OS.org .



[1] https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-250831/



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