Ironclad's Blog

This is the main blog of the Ironclad project, this blog is used to announce major developments in the world of Ironclad, alongside updates on progress and other goodies.

This blog is the continuation of an earlier Savannah-based RSS feed that was used for the same purposes. For historical purposes, it can be seen here.

Adding Modern Desktop Environment Options to Gloire

Sep 30, 2025 - 2 mins - Cristian <streaksu@ironclad-os.org>

One of the biggest barriers for adoption of up and coming operating systems is bad accessibility, graphical interfaces, and application frameworks. To not make Ironclad-based systems meet this fate, we have some cool progress to show! In this article, we will cover our advances porting the MATE desktop environment to Gloire, our testing Ironclad distribution, alongside the work done to port the GTK+ ecosystem that allows easy porting of other applications and DEs, and where we go from here in this effort.

Ironclad 0.8.0 Released

Aug 13, 2025 - 2 mins - Cristian <streaksu@ironclad-os.org>

This release brings big improvements on Ironclad platform support, with the advent of RISC-V64 support, and much more!

Introducing Ironclad for RISC-V

Jul 31, 2025 - 3 mins - Cristian <streaksu@ironclad-os.org>

Ironclad’s ecosystem grows larger! In this article we will delve on the most recent addition to the list of Ironclad’s supported targets, and what RISC-V support adds to the project.

Ironclad 0.7.0 Released

May 27, 2025 - 2 mins - Cristian <streaksu@ironclad-os.org>

The project has grown a bit since last release, and this release brings a lot of changes, updates on how we do things in Ironclad, and a big flow of developers into the project!

Gloire Snapshot Released - 20250519

May 19, 2025 - 2 mins - Cristian <streaksu@ironclad-os.org>

Gloire, the main FOSS distribution and testing grounds for Ironclad, gets today a new snapshot!

Modernizing Process Initialization in Ironclad

Apr 28, 2025 - 6 mins - Cristian <streaksu@ironclad-os.org>

For the longest time, Ironclad has featured three types of operation that allow for a userland process to execute other programs. These are the exec, fork, and spawn syscalls, which userland builds abstractions on. As the complexity of applications Ironclad is capable of running has grown, these options (especially spawn) have become extremely clubbersome to use and justify. In this article, we will cover what changes we are doing, why, and where to go from here.

Moving RSS feeds and infrastructure to Codeberg

Apr 25, 2025 - 2 mins - Cristian <streaksu@ironclad-os.org>

Ironclad as a project is on the process of moving completely from Savannah to Codeberg, an up and coming european code hosting platform that aims to compete with GitHub.