This isn’t technically Linux, but I couldn’t find a better place to post this. Redox is looking like a very neat project and less of a tech demo.

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    1 year ago

    I like seeing ambitious projects like this, even if it doesn’t work out in the long run. It’s good learning, and for the same reason we need more options for a browser, more options for an OS only makes things better for everyone. Also Pop_OS is a pretty cool project if you can ignore the drama lol. I’m excited to see what Cosmic desktop ends up being

  • theshatterstone54
    8·
    1 year ago

    They are porting COSMIC? That’s insane! If they can actually pull off their goals for 23/24 I’d be looking to try RedoxOS on physical hardware.

    Edit: I will admit I confused RedoxOS with ReactOS, though

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    4·
    1 year ago

    Adding support for COSMIC, Qt, and GTK sounds impressive but all it really means is adding support for Wayland. I mean adding Wayland support is impressive enough but the rest kind of come for free.

    The same is true of relibc really. I mean, once you have matured the C library, POSIX support is a layup and everything else flows from that.

    I really like the idea of Relibc as the benefits of Rust would be very welcome in something as foundational as the C library. It would be interesting to see it used by a Linux distro.

    Interesting to see that Redox will use GCC. Given that Rust / LLVM are so foundational to the system, I am surprised their main C / C++ compiler is not Clang.

  • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Does redox work as a web browser OS? A.k.a for web browsing and some light programming… like, has it gotten to the point where it’s useable for that?

    • simple@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I doubt it’s stable, it’s a very experimental project. It’s best that you get a light Linux distro if you’re looking for something like that.

      • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ik, I already use a light Linux distro for that, I’m just curious about redox and have been curious about it for a while