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Genode Labs Newsletter - December 2012 / January 2013
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Content
1. Genode at FOSDEM 2013
2. Road Map for 2013
1. Genode at FOSDEM 2013
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We are eagerly awaiting this year's FOSDEM in Brussels. This is the
place where the Open-Source and Free-Software community gathers during
2nd and 3rd of February. This year, Genode Labs is organizing the
microkernel developer room hosted at FOSDEM. We have to admit that
the response to the invitation we sent out to related projects has
overwhelmed us. The proposals submitted could have filled two days.
Because the devroom is limited to Saturday, it was challenging to
arrange the schedule. The final schedule looks as follows:
11:00-11:15 Welcome
11:20-12:00 The GNU/Hurd architecture, nifty features,
and latest news
12:05-12:35 Every cloud has a silver lining and what we can
learn from it
12:40-13:10 Rathaxes - A DSL for device driver development
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14:00-14:40 OS Hot Topics
14:45-15:25 Reaching puberty - How Genode is becoming a
general-purpose OS
15:30-16:00 Microkernels and You - long path of the
small project
16:05-16:40 HelenOS: last year at a glance
16:45-17:25 The NOVA Microhypervisor Interface
17:30-18:10 Romain: OS Support for Replicating
Binary Applications
18:15-19:00 Panel discussion
As the schedule suggests, the topics as well as the participating
projects are much more diverse than last year. In our particular talk
scheduled for 14:45, Norman Feske will present the steps taken and
the experiences made while shaping Genode into a general-purpose OS.
A panel discussion with the presenters and representatives of
additional projects will round up the day. We are looking with
excitement forward to the gathering with the community of projects
and individuals with interests similar to ours. For those of you
who have not made up their mind about attending FOSDEM, we highly
recommend to join in. It's free:
https://fosdem.org/2013/
2. Road Map for 2013
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At the beginning of January, we kicked off the discussion about the
road map of the Genode OS Framework for 2013 at the Genode mailing
list. From the discussion, we learned that the interests of the
community members are well aligned with the goals of Genode Labs,
which we expressed in our original proposal.
The development of the Genode OS Framework in 2013 will be focused
on four topics: improving the framework infrastructure, using Genode
as a self-hosting environment, tooling and optimizations, and hardware
support. Each topic is described in more detail in the updated road
map:
http://genode.org/about/road-map
We took the road-map discussion as an opportunity to share our
thoughts about the progress made during the past year. Even though
we haven't yet reached our ambitious goal to use Genode as general-
purpose OS for conducting our daily work, the different puzzle pieces
are nicely coming together. We also observed that the project made
significant progress in areas not envisioned in our original plan,
in particular the profound support added for ARM-based platforms
comes in mind. Because there is always room for surprises, we are
curious to see where this year will take us.
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Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske
Genode Labs
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