======================================= Genode Labs Newsletter - April/May 2012 ======================================= Content 1. Welcome Alexander Böttcher at Genode Labs 2. New office location 3. Genode OS Framework 12.05 released 1. Welcome Alexander Böttcher at Genode Labs -------------------------------------------- We warmly welcome Alexander Böttcher in our team! Knowing him well from the time when we enjoyed being colleagues at the OS group of TU Dresden before Genode Labs was started, we look forward to joining up with him. Thanks to his longtime involvement with the TUD OS group, Alexander has gained a strong background in microkernel-based systems, OS security, and trusted computing. His particular focus during the past year was the extension of the NOVA userland. Hence, the NOVA hypervisor has a special place in his heart. Since the Genode OS Framework supports NOVA as base platform, Alexander will be able to continue his engagement with this technology and support our mission to advance Genode towards a general-purpose OS. We are grateful to ESF and the state of Saxony for partially funding Alexander's upcoming work at Genode Labs. 2. New office location ---------------------- With the move to a more spacious office location, our company takes the next next step on its path of organic growth. The new office space resides in a structure originally built in 1728 and restored last year. The trail of history of the building is documented at a dedicated Wikipedia page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufakturhaus_Friedrichstra%C3%9Fe_26 For the most part of its long history, the building was the host of small manufactories. Hence it is named "Manufakturhaus". Now we are looking forward to spending the upcoming years with our operating-system "manufactury" in this inspiring location. The new visiting address is Friedrichstr. 26, D-01067 Dresden. Please note that our postal address (the one registered for our company) remains unchanged. 3. Genode OS Framework 12.05 released ------------------------------------- The just released version 12.05 of our OS framework represents a further corner stone for our ambitioned goal to scale the Genode OS technology to a general-purpose operating system. It features fundamental concepts for the management of file systems and the dynamic adaptation of the system at runtime and thereby clears the way to solving many typical problems of general-purpose computing in new and elegant ways. Functionality-wise, the version 12.05 comes with a new USB stack, the ability to replay media data, and a way for executing complex GNU software including the GNU compiler collection directly on a variety of microkernels supported by the framework. In addition to the topics mentioned above, there are many more additions and improvements. For the full story, please refer to the release notes: http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/12.05 About the newsletter -------------------- If you have friends or colleagues who might be interested in our projects, we would appreciate you to forward this email. If you received this newsletter as a forwarded email, you may subscribe to the newsletter here: http://genode-labs.com/newsletter In the case of receiving this newsletter unintended, you can cancel your subscription at any time by replying to this email with the subject set to "unsubscribe". Best regards -- Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske Genode Labs http://www.genode-labs.com · http://genode.org Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth
