Rust-Written Redox OS Gets USB Keyboards & Mice Working

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rust-Written Redox OS Gets USB Keyboards & Mice Working

Redox OS as the from-scratch, Rust-written open-source operating system had a successful April with now having USB keyboards and mice now working with their USB HID driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-April-2024

[StarterX4]

Meanwhile GNU Hurd has no USB support at all for like 30 years.

[cutterjohn]

Meanwhile GNU Hurd has no USB support at all for like 30 years.

is anyone actually working on dead?

[Eirikr1848]

Meanwhile GNU Hurd has no USB support at all for like 30 years.

Poor Hurd. Is it inherently complex? Does it lack developer enthusiasm? Does it lack funding which also equates to enthusiasm?

Redox is Rust which is popular, so fast gainz expected?

It’s a little boggling that this just seems to come out of nowhere and start being successfully successful, dang.

[sophisticles]

Redox, and Haiku, are the two OSes I hope one day will supplant Linux based OSes.

If either one of them received the funding that the Linux Foundation gets, I firmly believe Linux would become a footnote in computing history inside of 5 years.

[rmfx]

Always nice to have Redox news.
Fresh and light codebases are a bless.
Even Google failed at pushing their Fuschsia into a competitive product, I wish they assigned a couple low level devs onto Redox to help.

[Quackdoc]

Default static can be nice for sure. I still wish something like gobolinux would have taken off however. It seems like just the right set of crazy

[dlq84]

Always nice to have Redox news.
Fresh and light codebases are a bless.
Even Google failed at pushing their Fuschsia into a competitive product, I wish they assigned a couple low level devs onto Redox to help.

I'm not sure they even tried to... They are just using it on their smart hubs. Do they even have the ambition to use it elsewhere?

[jaypatelani]

Redox, and Haiku, are the two OSes I hope one day will supplant Linux based OSes.

If either one of them received the funding that the Linux Foundation gets, I firmly believe Linux would become a footnote in computing history inside of 5 years.

Gloire has better chance than other two mentioned https://github.com/streaksu/Gloire

Besides if same donations were given to BSDs they would be more useful than Linux.

[Brananarchy]

This basically means redox was unusable on actual hardware without PS2 ports until now? Yikes.

Even my toy OS had a USB stack well before I started thinking about a GUI, because all my potential target hardware is old laptops with weird graphics setups, and a USB serial dongle is an easy debug print target.

And they still don't have USB interrupts working right, so it's _polling_? That's a major WTF. USB has been the single standard peripheral interface for nearly two decades.

I am a total Rustacean. I want to see more rust in OSes. But clearly Redox is not focused on enabling real usage in any way and instead is focused on looking pretty in an emulated 2001 machine. That's not a viable project.