This Month in Redox - May 2026

Redox OS is a complete Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system written in Rust. May was a very exciting month for Redox! Here’s all the latest news.

Donate to Redox

If you would like to support Redox, please consider donating or buying some merch!

• Donate
• Patreon
• Merch

Redox Summer of Code

We would like to officially announce our two Redox Summer of Code (RSoC) projects for 2026, supporting student developers.

1. Akshit Gaur is implementing a new scheduler for Redox. He has already implemented the Deficit Weighted Round Robin (DWRR) algorithm, which has been in use in Redox for the past month. His work on implementing Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) has just been merged, and he is about to begin work on optimizing system performance using the new algorithm. More details below.
2. Landon Propes will be improving various aspects of system compatibility, correctness and performance, including improvements to our pseudo-terminal driver, our math library (libm), partial support for “rlimits”, and other improvements to our C standard library, relibc. Landon has been contributing to relibc for several months, and has already significantly improved our compliance with the POSIX standard.

Each Summer of Code project this year is providing our students with more than $5,000 in funding. In addition to these projects, Redox is also providing a small amount of funding for 3 other non-student contributors on an ongoing basis. Our current spending is exceeding our monthly donations by quite a bit, and we are relying on donations received in previous years to support RSoC. If you can afford it, we would greatly appreciate a monthly or one-time donation, through Donorbox, Patreon, Bitcoin or Ethereum wallets available in the Donate page.