After more than half a year of development, Redox OS, an open source operating system written from scratch and written in Rust, has released the latest version 0.8. Redox OS 0.8 is a major version update, adding support for 32-bit x86, audio and multi-monitor (preliminary), and optimizing many components.
The main highlights of Redox OS 0.8 include:
Added support for i686/32-bit x86, which is expected to “just work” on real hardware. This also includes support for the AC’97 audio and IDE drivers common on i686-era hardware.
Improved support for 64-bit Arm (AArch64), supports booting on QEMU, but does not yet work on actual AArch64 hardware.
Initial support for multiple monitors, newer firmware will provide proper framebuffer information (still done with VESA drivers).
Audio support is almost complete, and the Intel HD Audio driver is now enabled by default.
NVMe storage drivers can be better supported in the real machine environment.
Redox OS images now work on BIOS and UEFI systems.
The build system has been refactored to improve multi-architecture support for the same source tree.
