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* We have not started on inotify but I will keep that in mind

* RedoxFS is MIT licensed

* RedoxFS supports all features with or without full disk encryption

* RedoxFS encryption includes all metadata


Transparent compression was just merged.


This year’s Redox Summer of Code program has seen us add some exciting capabilities to Redox. Our three interns each came up with their own project proposals, and delivered major new functionality. In addition to our paid internships, our volunteer contributors also made major strides this summer.


cargo is really close to working. rustc is working.


Awesome news. Any ports to Risc-V or Openpower?


Hello, I am Jeremy Soller, the creator of Redox OS. Let me know if you have any questions!


Hi Jeremy

I noticed a large number of laptops on the website. Are you going for a support a large number of devices(Microsoft&Linux) approach?

I think you should go for an Apple/System76 approach. Less hardware, but fully supported.

I would buy a tablet/laptop/desktop preinstalled with Redox.


Counterpoint: I am a filthy casual and won't buy a computer just to run Redox, but I will try it out on a computer I own or in a VM just to kick the tires.


I prefer Redox OS to support as wide a set of hardware as possible.


I see. Oh well, good luck with the project.


See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750810

My question is: is there any potential for sharing nvme code between a rust Linux driver and redox?


It is unlikely. The driver models are very different, ine being a microkernel, the other monolithic.


There is a lot missing from it. Vim is ported as well.


Hello, I am Jeremy Soller, the creator of Redox OS. Let me know if you have any questions!


I'm always excited to see news on Redox. It's an incredible project.

How close do you think Redox is to being able to run server-type workloads? For example, what would it take to spin up a Redox VM on Proxmox and have it run a basic Axum server? Is that possible today? If not, what are the remaining steps to get there?

Arguably, server workloads will be the most popular use case for Redox in the short or medium term if you assume that it will be mostly considered for where Linux is already used.


I DO!

The last time I tried Redox I was unable to compile Rust on the operating system itself.

Is that possible yet? It would be very cool in my opinion for it to be possible to run entirely without another operating system (theoretically). :D


rustc is working on Redox, cargo is not working yet. There are issues with cargo pulling the registry that will need to be solved.


That section on issues with the donation is interesting, and probably hugely stressful. Can you expand on that?


There isn't much more to say, and it is still in legal hell so I should not say more anyways.


It is upgradeable to 64GB.


Am i wrong to think that for 1000 dollars this laptop should come with 32gb of ram? Though its great that one can upgrade the memory.


To put things into perspective, Apple charges $400 to upgrade from $16GB to $32GB.

So I’ll say that expecting 32GB RAM in a $1K laptop is a little too unrealistic.


I don't think you should use Apple to put upgrade pricing in perspective. They've used inflated pricing to extract extra money from a captive audience for many years. Other OEMs cannot demand similar premiums for commodity products.


Yes, I know Apple prices are highly inflated.

I was using it to highlight the unreasonable-ness, IMHO of course, of the above request.


They use on-SoC RAM chips, essentially a cheaper HBM instead of just some random SO-DIMMS.

I think a better comparison would be Dell or Lenovo who do the same thing HP does, and they too charge a lot for what are essentially OEM versions of Samsung and Hynix memory anyone can get.


But Apple charges ridiculous premiums for everything. For example, at https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-12-gen-intel/configur... it's only $80 more for 32GB than for 16GB.


What does "Linux laptop" mean? Are you basically paying $1000 for high quality drivers for all of the computer components?

More importantly, if companies keep on releasing Linux laptops and only laptops we may really never see the Year of the Linux desktop :(


Well linux on desktop mostly just works. Linux on laptops has been a headache for a while with awful battery life, trackpad issues, wifi issues and things like that. So personally I don't feel the need for any dedicated linux desktop release compared to the laptop space where I appreciate more of a guarantee that the drivers actually work and I won't spend all my time messing with linux internals trying to get it to work.


Not sure, what do other laptops in the same price segment offer these days? I admit it's been a while since I looked, but I really doubt anyone has 32gb on a 1000 dollars laptop, or even 1500.


An Operating System mostly written in the Rust programming language.


Can you explain in more detail?


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