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Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port (www.phoronix.com)
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Developers behind Redox OS, the original open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language, have ported Wayland to it with initially getting the Smallvil Wayland compositor up and running along with the Smithay framework and the Wayland version of the GTK toolkit.

The Redox OS project published their November 2025 status update where one of their main accomplishments for the past month is getting these initial Wayland components up and running on it. Before getting too excited though, they note that the Wayland compositor's performance is "not adequate" and thus more work to do on their Wayland support but an exciting first milestone

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

On a technical level, that's cool.

On a practical level MIT-licensed OS better not get much mindshare. Cue everything that happened with important projects under permissive licenses over the last decade. E.g. Android, Chromium. I used to dgaf and was even quite excited about stuff like Fuscia OS. Boy did we dodge a bullet there with Google abandoning it.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

KHtml was massacred :/

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

KHtml was massacred

KHTML was forked. And kept open source. And the fork was so successful that even KDE switched to it (voluntarily).

And Apple employed a bunch of the KHTML developers for years. They still do I assume.

Oh, and one of them is now creating what will probably be the most successful independent web browser project ever—Ladybird.

Solid example.

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