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Written in
  
Rust, assembly

Working state
  
Active

OS family
  
Unix-like

Source model
  
Open-source

Redox (operating system)

Developer
  
Jeremy Soller, Redox Developers

Initial release
  
20 April 2015; 22 months ago (2015-04-20)

In computing, Redox is a Unix-like microkernel operating system written in the programming language Rust. It runs on extant hardware. It is free and open-source software distributed under an MIT License.

Redox was created by Jeremy Soller and was first published on 20 April 2015 on GitHub. Since then, it has been developed actively, with contributions by over 40 developers.

Ecosystem

Redox relies on an ecosystem of software written in Rust by members of the project including the:

  • Redox kernel
  • Ion shell
  • Sodium editor, inspired by Vim
  • TFS file system, inspired by ZFS
  • Orbital windowing System, Compositor, and Widget Toolkit
  • Ralloc memory allocator
  • Magnet package manager

    • References

    Redox (operating system) Wikipedia
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