RedoxOS 0.6.0

Redox is an open source UNIX-like operating system written in Rust.

Changes in 0.6:

  • Rewritten memory manager rmm. This fixed the memory leaks in the kernel that had become a major problem with the previous memory manager. Also support for multi-core processors has become more stable.

  • Many things from students Redox OS Summer of Code have been included in this release. Including work on ptrace, strace, gdb, disk partitioning, logging, io_uring, etc.

  • The relibc C standard library has been redesigned to be more compatible with applications.

  • The new pkgar package format, which is faster than the old tar format.

  • Updated collection with sample packages: cookbook

  • A lot of time leading up to this release was spent adapting the code to the breaking changes in Rust Nightlies, where the asm macro was redesigned. Also, other problems kept developers from releasing. They hope that new versions will now be released more frequently. (Previous 0.5 release was: March 24, 2019)

Screenshot from VirtualBox: https://i.imgur.com/QqylHXj.png

Source: linux.org.ru