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 Genode Labs Newsletter - December 2022 / January 2023
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 Content

 1. Road map for 2023
 2. Genode at FOSDEM 2023
 3. A first look at our upcoming mobile-phone user interface


 1. Road map for 2023
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 Around the turn of the year, we traditionally make up our minds
 about Genode's intermediate future by discussing the project's road
 map for the next year on our public mailing list. By mid of January,
 we distilled the official road map from the lively discussion.

   https://genode.org/about/road-map

 Two topics stood out: First, the prospect of using Genode on the
 phone captured the imagination of many. And second, Sculpt-OS users
 long for the support of advanced hardware features and improved
 ease of use.

 After having enabled all hardware features of the PinePhone that are
 fundamental for a mobile phone over the course of the past year, we
 now aim at getting the mobile version of Sculpt OS into the hands of
 end users. There will be multiple rounds of field tests within the
 community, allowing us to reach the desired state of maturity and
 usefulness in an iterative way. See the 3rd item of this newsletter
 below for a first glimpse.

 On PC platforms, Genode will increasingly address advanced platform
 features like the distinction between power-efficient and high-
 performance cores, the management of temperatures and frequencies,
 or the practical use of suspend/resume. By the end of the year, we
 envision the PC version of Sculpt OS running on Genode's custom-
 tailored microkernel leveraging all those aspects of modern PCs.

 Along the planned timeline of the project, one can spot plenty of
 additional topics of interest such as the continued line of work of
 combining Genode with FPGAs, applications implemented in Rust, the
 integration of IPv6, the use of C++20 by default, or completed
 driver support for the MNT Reform laptop.


 2. Genode at FOSDEM 2023
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 In the previous newsletter, we already advertised the microkernel
 developer room featured at this year's FOSDEM conference:

   https://fosdem.org/2023/

   February 4 and 5, 2023 in Brussels

 We are pleased to announce that three Genode-related talks got
 accepted at FOSDEM this year.

 1. Norman Feske will present the first version of Sculpt OS on
    the PinePhone. He will give his talk on Saturday at the "FOSS
    on Mobile" developer room:

    https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/genode_on_the_pinephone/

 2. Stefan Kalkowski will present our revamped Linux device-driver
    porting approach on Sunday at the microkernel developer room:

    https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/ddtransplant/

 3. Michael Müller - who is not affiliated with Genode Labs - will
    give his talk about using Genode as an enabler for research on
    modern operating systems on Sunday at the microkernel developer
    room:

    https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/genode/

 Whether you like to get in touch or catch up with us, please
 consider attending FOSDEM!


 3. A first look at our upcoming mobile-phone user interface
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 With Genode on the PinePhone taking shape, we ultimately encountered
 the question of how the user interface of Genode as mobile OS should
 look like. Initially, we had the vague idea to mirror time-tested
 user-interface paradigms established in the worlds of Android and
 iOS. But Genode is different, and so are our goals. We took the
 opportunity to reflect the unique security architecture of our
 operating system at the user-interface level, giving the user an
 extremely strong sense of control over the device.

 As a teaser for our upcoming first system image for the PinePhone,
 we published the following article, which presents our rationale
 and the initial scope of Genode on the phone.

   https://genodians.org/nfeske/2023-01-05-mobile-user-interface


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