Nightly builds of the newweb rendering engine ‘Servo’ are now available for linux and Mac desktops.
‘Servo is a new web rendering engine, not a new web browser’
“While our engine is not yet fully web compatible, we want to give a larger audience the chance to start experimenting with and contributing to Servo,” the Servo team writes in a blog post.
Servo is billed as a ‘modern, high-performance browser engine designed for both application and embedded use’. It iswritten in the Rust programming language to, the project claims “achieve better parallelism, security, modularity, and performance.”
windows and Android builds are todebut inthe near future.
The Servo project was launched back in 2013 and is co-developed by Mozilla and Samsung. You can find out more information on the project Github page.
Includes a Basic Browser UIThe Servo nightly builds comes with basic browser interface which, while buggy, serves as your window to a web powered by the next-gen engine. It even has a neat New Tab page with shortcuts to popular websites and some online tech demos.
Servo is not yet fully web-compatable and should not be considered stable .
Also keepin mind that Servo is a rendering engine and not a brand new web browser, i.e. criticisms that it lacks extensions, notifications, etc are not fair.
Download and Run Servo on LinuxServo nightly is available for 64bit Linux only.
Click the download button below to grab the latest nightly build of Servo as a .tar.gz file.
Download Servo Nightly (Linux Build)
When the download completes head to the download directory and extract the archive.Open the‘servo’ folder that appears and double-click on the ‘./runservo.sh’ scriptinside to run the engine.