There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js.

The Redox OS project today published a blog post highlighting their accomplishments for the past month. Their February highlights include:

- The COSMIC compositor "cosmic-comp" is now able to run on Redox OS as a Winit window for proof of concept purposes. Input processing not yet working but it's a step toward getting the COSMIC compositor running on this Rust-based OS.

- COSMIC Settings is now running on Redox OS.

- There is initial Vulkan support on Redox OS now by using the CPU-based Lavapipe driver for software rendering. This is the first time having Vulkan on Redox OS albeit not with any hardware driver support yet.

- Node.js is now running on Redox OS.

- Various package manager improvements for Redox OS.

- Multi-threading is now more reliable on Redox OS.

- An on-screen display performance monitor is being worked on for this open-source OS.

- Various kernel and driver improvements as well as ongoing work to its Relibc libc implementation.

More details on February's changes to Redox OS via the Redox-OS.org blog .