Some of the recent Redox OS enhancements include:
– Redox Summer of Code will see student developers working on Unix Domain Sockets, System Services Manager for a system health monitor, and porting SpiderMonkey and the Servo browser engine to Redox OS. Redox OS currently uses the NetSurf web browser and without full JavaScript support.
– Redox OS has seen work to finish its user-space process manager.
– Student developers recently worked on system health monitoring and recovery daemon capabilities for Redox OS.
– Redox OS landed work to provide better user authentication security.
– RISC-V compilation fixes.
– Various hardware driver improvements/fixes and other system enhancements.
– FreeCiv and other games/apps have seen updates to their recipes for running on Redox OS.
More details on these improvements to this open-source Rust-based OS via Redox-OS.org.
Credit: Phoronix.com
