Redox OS 0.6 Released With Many Fixes, Rewritten Kernel Memory Manager

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Redox OS 0.6 Released With Many Fixes, Rewritten Kernel Memory Manager

Redox OS, the micro-kernel based Rust-written operating system, is out with a new Christmas release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Redox-OS-0.6-Released

[Raka555]

Great. I have been waiting forever for new images.
Every time I tried to build it from source, the build process failed. (I am not a rust expert, so I did'nt try to get it working.)

[Steffo]

Hopefully, this will once be the next generation free OS.
But I don't really like the MIT license. I think Apache V2 would have been the better choice.

[jbranso]

Hopefully, this will once be the next generation free OS.
But I don't really like the MIT license. I think Apache V2 would have been the better choice.

May I ask why you prefer the Apache license over the MIT license?

[ElectricPrism]

Redox OS has lead to many command line utilities I prefer to their GNU counterparts, bat can be really nice for numbered line output. fd is a simpler find, the cool thing is a lot of these utilities are in the AUR and available as cargo so they run on Linux just fine too.

[elatllat]

I wonder how ling untill it can run the not-firefox web browser that is planned.

[foolishgrunt]

I wonder how ling untill it can run the not-firefox web browser that is planned.

The better question is how long that browser will take to be anywhere near modern. My guess is never: WebPositive (for Haiku OS) is still not ready for prime time after >10 years.

Unless you were talking about a Chromium browser. Then I have no idea.

[wswartzendruber]

May I ask why you prefer the Apache license over the MIT license?

The MIT license was written before software patent law in the U.S. was really established. The Apache 2 license was specifically written to withstand litigation in the modern era.

[Vistaus]

The better question is how long that browser will take to be anywhere near modern. My guess is never: WebPositive (for Haiku OS) is still not ready for prime time after >10 years.

Unless you were talking about a Chromium browser. Then I have no idea.

However, WebPositive has made tremendous progress in the last few years, unlike the years before that. Until a few years ago, it was barely useable and hanged and crashed all the time. In 2020, while still not ready for prime-time, it is in very, very good shape and is actually very useable as a daily driver.

[Vistaus]

Hopefully, this will once be the next generation free OS.

Redox OS and Haiku are the best candidates IMHO