========================================= Genode Labs Newsletter - June / July 2019 ========================================= Content 1. Sculpt OS 19.07 released 2. Speaking of Security 3. Genode coming to 64-bit NXP i.MX8 SoCs 1. Sculpt OS 19.07 released --------------------------- Sculpt OS is our custom general-purpose operating system we develop as a showcase for the flexibility of the Genode OS framework. The release of Sculpt OS 19.07 at the beginning of July wraps up its extensive design-exploration story. The story began in May 2018 with the release of Sculpt OS for Early Adopters (EA), which featured the interactive system composition using a text-based user interface as a visual overlay. At this point, it was geared to die-hard Genode enthusiasts only. The second step followed in June in the form of Sculpt for The Curious (TC), which introduced a graphical user interface for common tasks like the management of storage and networking. It was followed by Sculpt with Visual Composition (VC) in September, which extended the graphical user interface with an interactive component graph. The final step - Sculpt as a community experience (CE) - followed in March 2019, which introduced our unique federated way of installing and safely deploying software from trusted and untrusted sources. After this rapid and intensive design-exploration ride, Sculpt OS enters a calmer phase of steady evolution. In this spirit, the new version 19.07 improves the overall performance thanks to the massive infrastructure improvements that came with Genode 19.05. The most prominent new user-visible feature is the ability of copy and paste text between terminals, graphical applications, and virtual machines. Our unique take on this feature is described in the following article: https://genodians.org/nfeske/2019-07-03-copy-paste The new release can be obtained from the Sculpt download page and is accompanied by updated documentation: https://genode.org/download/sculpt https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-19-07 2. Speaking of Security ----------------------- When speaking with IT-security professionals, we often encounter very different interpretations of the term "security". During such conversations, we found that our intuitive notion of IT security as resilience - and in particular the examination of attack surfaces - is rather uncommon. This prompted us to put our use of the term into a broader perspective: https://genodians.org/nfeske/2019-07-11-security The article tries to systematize various disciplines in the field of IT security, ranging from cryptography, network security, operational security, posthumous security, over reactive security and attack mitigations, to resilience. 3. Genode coming to 64-bit NXP i.MX8 SoCs ----------------------------------------- With Genode 19.08 in sight, we are happy to report on our progress with supporting the 64-bit NXP i.MX8 SoC. Our custom base-hw kernel happily runs on this platform now, and thanks to an updated Linux device driver environment, network support for this platform already entered Genode's staging branch as well. The work is accompanied with a series of articles that gives technical insights into this line of development: https://genodians.org/ssumpf/2019-06-17-armv8 https://genodians.org/skalk/2019-06-17-arm64-kernel https://genodians.org/skalk/2019-06-18-arm64-kernel https://genodians.org/skalk/2019-06-20-arm64-kernel 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: https://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 https://www.genode-labs.com/ · https://genode.org/ https://twitter.com/GenodeLabs · /ˈdʒiː.nəʊd/ Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth
