===================================================== Genode Labs Newsletter - December 2014 / January 2015 ===================================================== Content 1. Road Map for 2015 2. Genode at the upcoming FOSDEM 2015 3. USB Armory crowd-funding campaign 1. Road Map for 2015 -------------------- After brainstorming Genode's mid-term future on our mailing list, we finalized our road map for this year. The development during the past years was primarily driven by our desire for features. With respect to the feature set, we have eventually reached a state where Genode becomes viable as general-purpose computing platform. That said, we are still not there yet, because apart from a list of features, it is important how those features fit together and how easy it is to use them. Therefore, the focus for 2015 will be the consolidation and cultivation of the existing feature set. Still, there will be room for new developments, i.e., the use of Genode on the seL4 kernel. The new road map is available at: http://genode.org/about/road-map 2. Genode at the upcoming FOSDEM 2015 ------------------------------------- Following up our invitation to FOSDEM 2015 in our previous newsletter, we are happy to announce a strong participation of Genode this year. There will be three talks held by Norman Feske: "Genode - OS security by design" Sunday 12:00 - 12:25 Security devroom (AW1.120) "Transplantation of VirtualBox to the NOVA microhypervisor" Sunday 14:20 - 15:00 Virtualization devroom (UD2.120) "Introducing a radically componentized GUI architecture" Sunday 15:30 - 16:15 Microkernel devroom (K.3.201) More information about the talks (including abstracts) are available at the FOSDEM website: https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/speaker/norman_feske/ 3. USB Armory crowd-funding campaign ------------------------------------ With USB Armory, there is an intriguing hardware platform for Genode on the horizon: https://www.crowdsupply.com/inverse-path/usb-armory In short, USB Armory is a computer in the form factor of a USB stick. It is meant for security applications such as VPNs, authentication tokens, and encrypted storage. It is based on the FreeScale i.MX53 SoC, which it is well supported by Genode, i.e., Genode can be used as secure-world OS besides Linux running in the normal world. Besides introducing a novel form factor, this project is interesting because it strives to be an 100% open platform, which includes hardware, software, and firmware. Hence, at Genode Labs, we already started investigating possible Genode-based applications for it. As of now, the campaign has already reached its funding goal but it is still open for new backers. If you feel tempted to explore use cases of Genode on this platform, please consider joining in! 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
