{"id":180676,"date":"2025-09-25T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180676\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:21:11","slug":"who-wants-a-rusty-old-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180676\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants A Rusty Old Smartphone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we\u2019re talking about oxidized iron\u2026 probably nobody. If we\u2019re talking about Rust the programming language, well, that might be a different story. Google agrees, and is working on bringing the language into Android. That\u2019s not enough for [Paul Sanja], who has the first Redox OS smartphone.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s alive!<\/p>\n

Redox OS is a Unix-like<\/a> operating system written entirely in Rust, and somehow we haven\u2019t covered it until now. Unlike Asterinas, a project to recreate the Linux kernel in Rust<\/a>, Redox has few pretensions of being anything but its own thing, and that\u2019s great! On desktop, Redox has a working windowing system and many utilities, including a basic browser in the form of NetSurf.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s claims to be source-compatible with Linux and BSD programs, and partially POSIX compliant. A certain someone around here might want to try it as a daily driver.<\/a> The header image is a desktop screenshot, because there\u2019s more to see there and it fits our aspect ratio.<\/p>\n

On smartphones, it\u2026 boots. Some smartphones, anyway. It\u2019s actually a big first step. That booting is possible is actually thanks to the great work put in by the Postmarket OS team to get Uboot working on select android devices.<\/a> That uboot loader doesn\u2019t need to load the Linux-based Postmarket OS. It can be used for anything compatible. Like, say, Redox OS, as [Paul] shows us.<\/p>\n

Of course, Redox OS has no drivers for the touchscreen or anything else, so at the moment that rusty smartphone can only boot to a login screen. But thanks to Rust, you can rest assured that login screen hasn\u2019t got any memory leaks! Jokes aside, this is a great start and we\u2019re hoping to see more.<\/p>\n

Redox is a promising project on mobile or desktop, and its development seems a much better use of time and effort than fighting over Rust in the Linux kernel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If we\u2019re talking about oxidized iron\u2026 probably nobody. If we\u2019re talking about Rust the programming language, well, that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-180676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}