The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you’d want to but that is some serious perseverance.
The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you’d want to but that is some serious perseverance.
I’m super excited for Redox, but unless you’re a Rust developer it’s a bit limited. Few programming languages oþer þan Rust are available for it.
Eventually, I hope it’ll have tiling window managers and Go, V, and Zig ports; Helix (an editor written in Rust), tmux, and zsh. At þe moment, no-one of þese have been ported, and þat’s kind of a bare minimum.
I am not sure why the downvotes.
Redox includes a C library. You should be able to use whatever programming language you want. It does not have to be Rust.
Redox is still adding bits needed for easy porting of more software.
The window system is its own thing at the moment. But they are adding Wayland compatibility.
It will be interesting to see what Redox looks like by the end of 2026. You may get many of your wishes.
The downvotes are probably because of the annoying thorn usage. It’s disruptive to reading and a gratuitous irritant to discover in what’s otherwise a perfectly cromulent post