============================================ Genode Labs Newsletter - February/March 2012 ============================================ Content 1. FOSDEM 2012 roundup 2. Genode OS Framework 12.02 released 3. Welcome Josef Söntgen in our Team 4. Outlook on our next Live CD 1. FOSDEM 2012 roundup ---------------------- For the first time, Genode actively participated in FOSDEM, which is the worlds biggest gathering of Free-Software and Open-Source enthusiasts held each year in Brussels. Our focus was the microkernel devroom, which provided an excellent setting for our presentations. Norman Feske held an introductory talk, presenting Genode's architecture, and demonstrating several use cases live. Stefan Kalkowski presented his experience with supporting many different kernels as base platforms of Genode in his talk titled "The agony of choice - the diversity of microkernels in Genode". Both talks were well received. We were delighted to see that our project is well recognised and far more visible than we expected. The slides and abstracts of both talks are available at the publications section of genode.org: http://genode.org/about/publications Following the scheduled talks, Christian Helmuth participated in a panel discussion about the current Open-Source microkernels landscape. For our project, FOSDEM and the microkernel devroom in particular were a great experience - not only for the opportunity to present Genode to an interested audience but primarily for fostering our relationship with developers and related projects. 2. Genode OS Framework 12.02 released ------------------------------------- End of February, we released the first Genode version conducted with our recently introduced open development model. We took the release cycle as the opportunity to execute the transition of our code base and issue tracker to GitHub and to reconsider our company-internal development processes. On the technical level, version 12.02 contains the first corner- stones for our goal to turn Genode into a general-purpose OS by the end the year. The Noux runtime for executing unmodified GNU software on Genode has been enhanced to support a fully-featured Unix shell, a new device-driver manager enables dynamic driver selection at boot time, and our new ACPI driver greatly broadens the number of usable devices on modern kernels such as Fiasco.OC and NOVA. These and many more improvements are described in full detail in the release notes: http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/12.02 3. Welcome Josef Söntgen in our Team ------------------------------------ We are happy to welcome Josef Söntgen in our team. Starting in April, Josef will support us with turning our road map into reality. His profound hands-on experience with a broad range of alternative operating systems will be of great help to explore the design space for the challenging topics that we face in the next months. We are looking forward to work with Josef. On GitHub you will recognise him as cnuke. 4. Outlook on our next Live CD ------------------------------ The current version of our bootable Genode live system was released more than a year ago. So it is time for an update showing the progress we have made since then. The goal behind the new edition is to provide a glimpse of our vision to use Genode as OS for doing productive work. Even though it will still have the character of a tech demo rather than a productive system, its presentation and content will be mainly focused on topics important to (at least our personal notion of) general-purpose computing. Whereas the previous live system was designed to be easily approachable and relatively simple, the new system should be attractive to people who enjoy tinkering with a command-line interface. We plan to release the new live system in May. 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
