This page covers important programs and libraries supported by Redox as of October 2025.
Redox is designed to be source-compatible with POSIX and Linux applications, only requiring compilation or small patches.
This page contain programs that are known to work well on Redox or how well it was tested. All programs are compiled through our package cross-compilation system called Cookbook, which includes the configuration of all kinds of patches and forks that are required to make them run on Redox.
Everything on the following lists are tested on the x86_64 (Intel/AMD) CPU architecture, other CPU architectures may not have been tested yet.
The following compilers have been tested to build on Redox, but the runtime status varies:
Name Can cross-compile from Linux? Can compile programs on Redox? Compiled programs can run on Redox?
GCC 13 Yes Yes Working Well Rust 1.90 Yes Always Crashing Working Well Go 1.25 Yes Always Crashing Always Crashing Zig 0.15 Not Known Not Known Not Known
The following interpreters have been tested to build on Redox, but the runtime status varies:
Name Can be compiled? Works on Redox?
RustPython Yes Working Well CPython 3.12 Yes Working Well Lua 5.4 Yes Not Known LuaJit 2.1 Yes Often Crashing Node.js 24 Yes Always Crashing PHP 8.4 Yes Mostly Well
Most GUI applications are running through Orbital (Redox display server and window manager), it supports the following GUI libraries:
Mesa3D (OpenGL and EGL, via liborbital)
SDL1 and SDL2 (via Mesa3D)
winit (via orbclient)
X11 (via TWM, which is via liborbital)
The following programs are well known to be working:
Name GUI Backend Working?
COSMIC Editor winit Working Well COSMIC Files winit Working Well COSMIC Reader winit Working Well COSMIC Store winit Not Tested COSMIC Terminal winit Working Well Netsurf SDL1 Working Well FFplay SDL2 Working Well Servo Mesa3D Often Crashes xterm X11 Working Well xeyes X11 Working Well
Name GUI Backend Working?
DOSBox SDL1 Working Well Mednafen SDL2 Working Well MGBA SDL1 Working Well RVVM SDL1 Working Well
Name GUI Backend Working?
Freeciv SDL2 Working Well Gigalomania SDL1 Working Well Neverball SDL2 Working Well OpenTTD SDL1 Working Well OpenTyrian SDL2 Working Well Prboom SDL2 Working Well Quakespam SDL2 Working Well SpaceCadet Pinball SDL2 Working Well
Name Working?
OpenSSH Daemon Working Well Nginx Working Well Simple HTTP Server Working Well Python Static Server Not Tested PHP-FPM Not Tested
The following CLI tools are known to be working. Programs listed below may not include core utilites :
Name Working?
GNU Bash Working Well Ion Working Well Nushell Not Tested Fish Hangs Zsh Hangs
Name Working?
Kibi Working Well GNU Nano Working Well Vim Working Well Sodium Working Well Neovim Crashes
Name Working?
Bottom Working Well Htop Working Well
Name Working?
Git Working Well GNU Autotools Not Tested GNU Binutils Working Well GNU Grep Working Well GNU Make Working Well GNU Sed Working Well
Name Working?
FFMPEG Working Well
Name Working?
Bzip2 Working Well Xz Working Well Xxhash Working Well Zstd Working Well
Name Working?
Ncdu Not Tested
Name Working Status
OpenSSH Client Not Tested Curl Working Well GoAccess Working Well Rsync Working Well SQLite Not Tested Wget Working Well
You can see all Redox components and ported programs on the build server list .