{"id":105693,"date":"2022-11-24T09:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T07:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/vypusk-operaczionnoj-sistemy-redox-os-0-8-napisannoj-na-yazyke-rust"},"modified":"2022-11-24T09:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T07:36:43","slug":"vypusk-operaczionnoj-sistemy-redox-os-0-8-napisannoj-na-yazyke-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/vypusk-operaczionnoj-sistemy-redox-os-0-8-napisannoj-na-yazyke-rust","title":{"rendered":"The release of the Redox OS 0.8 operating system, written in Rust","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

The release of the Redox operating system 0.8 has been published, developed using the Rust language and the microkernel concept. The project's developments are distributed under the MIT open license. To test Redox OS, demonstration builds of 768 MB are offered, as well as images with a basic graphical environment (256 MB) and console tools for server systems (256 MB). The builds are created for the x86_64 architecture and are available for systems with UEFI and BIOS. The demonstration image, in addition to the Orbital graphical environment, includes the DOSBox emulator, a selection of games (DOOM, Neverball, Neverputt, sopwith, syobonaction), educational programs, the music player rodioplay, and the text editor Sodium. <\/p>\n

The operating system evolves in accordance with Unix philosophy and borrows some ideas from SeL4, Minix, and Plan 9. Redox employs a microkernel concept, where the kernel level provides only process interaction and resource management, while all other functionality is implemented in libraries that can be used by both the kernel and user applications. All drivers run in user space within isolated sandbox environments. To ensure compatibility with existing applications, a special POSIX layer is provided, allowing many programs to run without porting. <\/p>\n

The system operates on the principle of 'everything is a URL'. For example, a URL such as 'log:\/\/' can be used for logging, 'bus:\/\/' for inter-process communication, 'tcp:\/\/' for network interaction, and so on. Modules that can be implemented as drivers, kernel extensions, and user applications can register their URL handlers, for instance, a module for accessing input\/output ports can be written and bound to the URL 'port_io:\/\/', allowing access to port 60 via opening the URL 'port_io:\/\/60'. <\/p>\n

The user environment in Redox is built upon its own graphical shell, Orbital (not to be confused with another Orbital shell using Qt and Wayland), along with the OrbTk toolkit, which offers an API similar to Flutter, React, and Redux. Netsurf is used as the web browser. The project is also developing its own package manager, a set of standard utilities (binutils, coreutils, netutils, extrautils), the ion command shell, the standard C library relibc, a vim-like text editor called sodium, a networking stack, and a file system. Configuration is specified in Toml. <\/p>\n

The latest release continues the efforts to enable operation on real hardware. In addition to x86_64 architecture, support for 32-bit x86 systems (i686, Pentium II and newer) has been added. Porting to ARM64 CPU (aarch64) is ongoing. Currently, real ARM hardware is not supported, but booting is possible through emulation of ARM64 in QEMU. The audio subsystem is activated by default, and initial support for multi-monitor configurations is provided (on systems with UEFI framebuffer). The supported hardware in Redox OS includes AC'97 and Intel HD Audio sound chips, graphics output via VESA BIOS or UEFI GOP API, Ethernet (Intel 1\/10 Gigabit Ethernet, Realtek RTL8168), input devices (keyboards, mice, touchpads), SATA (AHCI, IDE), and NVMe. Wi-Fi and USB support are still under development (USB works only in QEMU). <\/p>\n

Other innovations: <\/p>\n