Redox OS gets RISC-V support
84 points by fork-bomber 4 days ago | 7 comments
  • phoronixrly 4 days ago |
  • mperham 4 days ago |
    Anyone know how usable Redox is? Can it serve static files with Apache, for example? Does it have a workable POSIX userspace?
    • mperham 4 days ago |
      This is a fascinating article on the subject. https://www.redox-os.org/news/kernel-11/
    • zie 4 days ago |
      You can see the list of packages currently ported here: https://static.redox-os.org/pkg/x86_64-unknown-redox/

      You can go up a directory to see the other architectures.

      Apache isn’t there, but vim is.

      • sho_hn 3 days ago |
        > Apache isn’t there, but vim is.

        This sentence cracked me up. There probably actually is a httpd implementation in vimscript however. :-)

        • zie 3 days ago |
          lol, I’ve never tried web serving from vimscript. I think handling sockets might be the hard part. bash is there too, and you can absolutely do simple web serving in bash, provided you also have netcat or socat https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd

          Sadly it doesn’t appear either of those socket utilities are ported yet.

  • ekianjo 4 days ago |
    Does not work on actual risc-v hardware yet. Just Qemu.