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* We have not started on inotify but I will keep that in mind

* RedoxFS is MIT licensed

* RedoxFS supports all features with or without full disk encryption

* RedoxFS encryption includes all metadata

Re:RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS on Saturday September 27, 2025 @08:43AM (#45395239)
Transparent compression was just merged.
Re:Redox Summer of Code 2023 Wrapup on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:22AM (#37391283)
This year’s Redox Summer of Code program has seen us add some exciting capabilities to Redox. Our three interns each came up with their own project proposals, and delivered major new functionality. In addition to our paid internships, our volunteer contributors also made major strides this summer.
Re:Redox OS 0.8.0 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:35PM (#33756441)
I prefer Redox OS to support as wide a set of hardware as possible.
Re:Redox OS 0.8.0 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:35PM (#33756429)
It is unlikely. The driver models are very different, ine being a microkernel, the other monolithic.
Re:Redox OS 0.8.0 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @08:45AM (#33752585)
cargo is really close to working. rustc is working.
Re:Redox OS 0.8.0 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @08:43AM (#33752568)
Hello, I am Jeremy Soller, the creator of Redox OS. Let me know if you have any questions!
Re:Redox OS 0.8.0 is now released on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:14PM (#33738019)
There is a lot missing from it. Vim is ported as well.
Re:Redox OS 0.8.0 is now released on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:34AM (#33729753)
There isn't much more to say, and it is still in legal hell so I should not say more anyways.
Re:Redox OS 0.8.0 is now released on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:33AM (#33729745)
rustc is working on Redox, cargo is not working yet. There are issues with cargo pulling the registry that will need to be solved.
Re:Redox OS 0.8.0 is now released on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:35PM (#33725396)
Hello, I am Jeremy Soller, the creator of Redox OS. Let me know if you have any questions!
Re:HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:35PM (#31453892)
It is upgradeable to 64GB.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:06AM (#31204588)
An Operating System mostly written in the Rust programming language.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:06AM (#31204580)
Can you explain in more detail?
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:04AM (#31204564)
There is no functional installer yet.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:02AM (#31204545)
Redox has pretty low resource requirements.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:04AM (#31201292)
Thanks!
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:03AM (#31201285)
Yes, it is redirect on write.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:46PM (#31200810)
I look forward to the first "distro" of Redox!
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:44PM (#31200800)
I have looked into Fuchsia, mostly into the Zircon kernel and its system calls.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:42PM (#31200789)
Working at System76, I have mostly been developing with those devices in mind.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:42PM (#31200786)
Namespaces on redox are probably what you are looking for. They are incredibly powerful, but difficult to describe. Processes can offer isolated filesystems called "schemes". These are usually at the default namespace (1). Processes can move to the null namespace (0) which disallows them from opening file descriptors from most schemes. Moving to a new namespace allows a process to control the view of the system for all its children. This can be used, for example, to implement chroot.

Syscalls are mostly sync, but with some syscalls for doing blocking operations asynchronously, like on Linux.

Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:32PM (#31200736)
I would love to next work on the install process. Currently, there is only a very simple installer that I haven't mentioned much because it is really only good for replicating the VM image inside a VM.

Improving this so it can be used to have permanent installs of Redox OS, and then improving rustc so those installs can build software for Redox OS (self-hosted), would accelerate development so we can take on bigger, higher level projects.

Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:29PM (#31200721)
Yep, all those too :D
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:27PM (#31200703)
I'd love to port Servo, but the first thing people would ask after doing that, is probably when is Firefox going to be ported ;-)
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:26PM (#31200693)
I'll add that, I would definitely have had that if something other than x86_64 was supported

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