What is Redox?
Redox is a microkernel-based operating system, a complete, fully-functioning, general-purpose operating system with a focus on safety, freedom, reliability, correctness, and pragmatism.
Wherever possible, the system components are written in Rust and run in user-space.
What is the purpose of Redox?
The main goal of Redox is to be a general-purpose OS, while maintaining security, reliability and correctness.
Redox aims to be an alternative to existing Unix systems (Linux/BSD), with the ability to run most Unix programs with only recompilation or minimal modifications.
What programs can Redox run?
Redox is designed to be source-compatible with most Unix, Linux and POSIX-compilant applications, only requiring compilation.
Currently, most GUI applications require porting, as we don’t support X11 or Wayland yet.