============================================= Genode Labs Newsletter - Dezember/Januar 2010 ============================================= Content 1. Genode Labs leaves behind its infancy 2. Exploring the NOVA hypervisor 3. Upcoming release of the Genode OS Framework 10.02 1. Genode Labs leaves behind its infancy ---------------------------------------- In spring 2008, Genode Labs was founded with the simplest legal status possible, a loose bond of two persons, in Germany called Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts (GbR). This provided an unbureaucratic, cheap, and quick way to get our business going. In December, we left this stage behind and changed the legal status to "Gesellschaft mit beschränker Haftung" (GmbH), which is comparible with a british Limited and the most common legal status used for private companies in Germany. For us this important symbolic step marks the completion of the initial bootstrapping procedure of our venture. 2. Exploring the NOVA hypervisor -------------------------------- The Genode OS Framework is a user-level toolkit for building specialized operating systems using microkernel technology. When we started its development in 2006 at the OS Group of the University of Technology Dresden, it was originally designated to be the user land of a next-generation and to-be-developed new kernel called NOVA. Because the kernel was not ready at that time, we had to rely on intermediate solutions as kernel platform such as Fiasco and Linux during development. These circumstances led us the extremely portable design that Genode has today and motivated us to make Genode available on the whole family of L4 microkernels including Fiasco, L4ka::Pistachio, and OKL4. In December, the day we waited for a long time had come. The first version of NOVA was publicly released: http://hypervisor.org Besides the novel and modern kernel interface, NOVA has a list of features that sets it apart from most other microkernels, in particular support for virtualization hardware, multi-processor support, and capability-based security. At Genode Labs, we are currently investigating how to make Genode available on this kernel as a benefit for both, the NOVA developers and the Genode community. 3. Upcoming release of the Genode OS Framework 10.02 ---------------------------------------------------- According to our updated road map for 2010 http://genode.org/about/road-map we are in the process of preparing the upcoming version 10.02 scheduled for the end of February. With this release, we aim to broaden the base-platform support, in particular the support for the ARM CPU architecture. Furthermore, we will introduce long desired functionality such as real-time priorities, Python scripting, and a plugin concept for the C runtime (for using networking and files). 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 -- Norman Feske Genode Labs http://www.genode-labs.com/ · http://genode.org/
