Redox OS Development Priorities for 2025/26
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- #Operating-Systems
- #Rust
- #Redox-OS
- Redox development priorities for 2025/26 include stability, performance, and compatibility improvements.
- Three main Redox variants: Hosted Redox (Web Services Runtime), Redox Server (Edge and Cloud), and Redox Desktop (daily driver).
- Key development areas: Building Redox on Redox, compliance, programming language support, performance, security, hardware support, COSMIC/Wayland/GPU, and accessibility.
- Ways to contribute: Donations, development, documentation, and applying for grants.
- Redox is hiring a kernel/core developer and frequently applies for grants.
- Hosted Redox aims to be a secure runtime for web services, requiring improvements in network stack, virtiofs, virglrenderer, and more.
- Redox Server targets secure hosting for web services, with phased multi-tenant containerization.
- Redox Desktop focuses on usability, COSMIC Desktop support, and sandboxing by default.
- Self-hosting development on Redox is a priority, needing network performance improvements, Rust compiler updates, and workflow enhancements.
- Compliance and compatibility efforts include POSIX compliance, Rust std library testing, and porting Linux applications.
- Performance improvements focus on ring buffers for disk/network, scheduler updates, and hardware-accelerated graphics.
- Security enhancements involve capability-based security and Capsicum-style mechanisms.
- Hardware support includes firmware, WiFi, USB, I2C, IOMMU, and virtualization.
- COSMIC, Wayland, and GPU acceleration are high priorities, alongside accessibility and internationalization efforts.