I love and admire the Redox project, but their insistence on fudging the publication dates of their monthly progress reports really bothers me, for some reason. No, I’m not 16 days late – the report covering October was published only yesterday evening, and not on 31 October as the website claims. None of this matters to anyone but weird people such as myself, but I still want to get it off my chest. Don’t bother any Redox people about this.
Anyway, the big news for the month of October is the port of the official Go programming language compiler, allowing for cross-compilation and self-hosted compilation using relibc. Another major port also made its way to Redox in October: GIMP now runs on Redox, using the Orbital backend of the GTK port. The work to make Redox compatible with Cloud Hypervisor is also complete, with more information in its own dedicated article. Video playback in WebKitGTK3 has been fixed as well, and even YouTube works now which is quite neat.
There’s a ton more in this report, like an updated Servo port, NUMA support has been tested on real hardware for the first time and seems to work, work on rootless package installation has begun, and much more.
