The months keep slipping through our fingers, during this, our slow but relentless march towards the inevitability of certain death, so it’s time for another month of improvements to Redox, the general-purpose microkernel operating system written in Rust. This past month the work to bring various components of system76’s COSMIC desktop environment to Redox continues, with COSMIC Reader making its way to Redox. Jeremy Soller, creator of the Redox project and one of its primary engineers, will be using COSMIC Reader running on Redox to hold a presentation about Redox at RustConf.
Aside from that important port, this month – in the middle of Summer on in this hemisphere – seems to mostly consist of a ton of smaller bugfixes and improvements. Relibc, Redox’ C standard library, has seen a ton of work, as usual, a few ports were fixed and updated, like vim and OpenSSH, Orbital now has fullscreen support, and so, so much more.
The dock looks so lifeless
https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-pywjnxrcr2/images/stencil/original/image-manager/cosmic-sectionlifestyle-desktop.png?t=1723658727
True. It looks like bad GNOME. And GNOME is already terrible.
Probably to make the change from their old desktop to the new one smaller. But a bit more distinguished and interesting wouldn’t hurt.
Sad to see three comments fixating on a single screenshot of the COSMIC desktop instead of talking about how exciting Redox is.
I get so many good vibes from Redox OS, and my brief interactions with the COSMIC desktop were quite impressive given its age. I am very interested in where these projects are headed. The COSMIC desktop will be a nice option beyond just Redox, but I wonder if Redox can grow into something really special and disruptive. I don’t know enough about the technical aspects behind it, but it _feels_ good to me and I want it to succeed. It seems like they’ve accomplished a lot in a short amount of time.