This Week in Redox 2

By Redox Developers on Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Whats new in Redox?

• &str == redox String cleanup
• Add Bresenham’s line drawing algorithm
• Add box_write command in filesystem/apps/test/test.rs
• Add wget command
• Add Write trait
• Add leak test for test.rs
• Add second wallpaper/bootscreen image
• Add temporary RSA implementation
• Add user scheme example
• Added Fedora build instructions.
• Added dnode, object set, and zil header
• Changed Fedora setup instructions to use dnf instead of yum
• Document the rest of libredox
• Documentation of the schemes module
• Dup fork clone exec
• Formatize more &str.to_string concats
• Got NvPairs XDR decoding working
• Hacky way to read ZFS files
• Indexize Memory and use Memory in uhci
• Initial ion commit
• LZJB compression for ZFS
• Manual Debug workaround for NvList and NvValue
• More Memoryifying and import cleanup
• More progress toward reading a file
• Move kvec.rs to vec.rs and use Memory where possible
• NvList Serialization
• Opening Programs from the UI Bar Change
• Playing with the test app
• Progress on nvpairs and XDR
• Remove Option:: namespacing and remove some leftover whitespace
• Removed debug prints in NvPairs decoding in ZFS
• Rename BMP to BMPFile
• Start Neon, a permission model.
• Starting to read ZAP objects
• Undo format!ing and borrow slices instead of Vecs
• Use LZJB compression to read the MOS meta_dnode
• Userspace networking
• ZFS read support
• ls command for ZFS

What does it look like?

The desktop. Yay! Fancy opacity. We have a file manager! The boot screen.

What’s next?

• Continue on x86_64 support
• Create design documents for Ion
• Create design documents for Oxide
• Discuss development infrastructure
• Move things out of the kernel
• Link a userspace allocator to libredox
• Get kernel strings to support UTF-8 with Vec<u8> instead of UTF-32 with Vec<char>

Contributors

• Abhishek Chanda abhishek.chanda@emc.com
• Adam Baxter ambaxter@users.noreply.github.com
• Ben Elliott belliott@schemagames.com
• Jeremy Soller jackpot51@gmail.com
• Liam Wigney ShadowCreator@users.noreply.github.com
• Remi Rampin remirampin@gmail.com
• stratact stratact1@gmail.com
• Theodore DeRego tderego94@gmail.com
• Ticki Ticki@users.noreply.github.com
• Titouan Vervack tivervac@gmail.com