July was a very exciting month for Redox! Here's all the latest news.
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## Massive Performance Improvements
4lDO2 reduced the time to make a context switch by 60-70% !
Redox is becoming faster than Linux in some workloads (with all exploit mitigations disabled), more exciting optimizations are coming.
## POSIX Signals
4lDO2 started to show results on his work to implement the POSIX signals on userspace.
You can read his post about the work on this link.
## Web Servers
We successfully compiled and executed the first web server on Redox!
[Simple HTTP Server](https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server) is an advanced HTTP web server written in Rust, the contributor lgh-127001 successfully served a website.
He is also improving the Apache HTTP Server port.
## Relibc Improvements
The contributor Derick Eddington fixed four incorrectness bugs on relibc.
## Driver Improvements
bjorn3 improved the driver development by adding a symbolic link on the `drivers-initfs` recipe configuration to use the source code of the `drivers` recipe, now developers will have less problems to test their changes inside of Redox.
## Programs
bjorn3 converted the Orbital recipes to TOML, fixing the "desktop-minimal" variant.
Ribbon converted more recipes to TOML to remove obsolete and broken code from our package system.
More exciting Rust programs were packaged as usual.
## Documentation
A list of the Ribbon's improvements this month:
- Now the book recommend the [Gentoo](https://gentoo.org) package documentation for dependency configuration on recipes, it's because the Gentoo package documentation is very rich and advanced on feature flags, dependency classification and cross-compilation.
- The "Weekly Images" section was renamed "Daily Images" on the "Running Redox in a virtual machine" and "Running Redox on real hardware" pages, it was called "weekly" because breaking changes stopped the image update for weeks, but they are configured to be created daily.
- Some sections of the website FAQ were copied to the book, it improved the reading and information distribution (more easy to find).
- The "Scripts" section on the "Build System" page was improved, he added a command to sort in alpahbetical order the output of the include-recipes.sh script, it will save time from packagers adding recipes to the package build server configuration.
- Now the website and book READMEs recommend the [lychee](https://lychee.cli.rs/) tool to verify broken links
- Now the website READMEs has instructions to install [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/)
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