============================================== Genode Labs Newsletter - August/September 2010 ============================================== Content 1. Release of the Genode OS Framework 10.08 2. Coming up next - a new Genode Live CD 1. Release of the Genode OS Framework 10.08 ------------------------------------------- In mid of August, we have published the 9th release of our operating-system framework within the last two years. With the current release, we focused our work on pushing the limits of Genode's device-driver support. We are proud to report to have successfully enabled Genode to use wireless networking and hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, which we consider as the two most challenging domains with regard to device-driver support. For bringing wireless networking to Genode, we ported the MadWifi stack using our existing Linux device driver environ- ment. Thanks to this time-tested approach, we have been able to reuse the MadWifi code completely unmodified. Our work regarding hardware-accelerated 3D graphics is based on the Gallium3D architecture. We addressed both, the user-level infrastructure ported from Mesa, and the GPU driver code, which normally resides in the kernel. In contrast to conventional operating systems, Genode executes the complete 3D driver stack in unprivileged user mode. Further features of the current release are new interfaces for block drivers including an ATAPI driver, improved ARM support for the dynamic linker, and the update of Qt4 to version 4.6.3. To learn more about the new features, please refer to the release notes of version 10.08: http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/10.08 2. Coming up next - a new Genode Live CD ---------------------------------------- With the version 10.08 out of the door, we immediately started working on the upcoming version to be released in November. As an intermediate step, we are currently busy in updating our Genode Live CD with the new and exciting things that we have developed since the last Live CD released one year ago. Looking at our last year's progress, you can expect to see show- cases of the user-level Linux kernel, sound support, networking, Qt4 including a webkit-based browser, and Gallium3D. 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/ ยท http://genode.org/
