Genode Labs News

Genode OS Framework version 10.02 released

The new release 10.02 of the Genode OS Framework is available. With this release, the project further broadens the field of applications for Genode by introducing support for two new kernels: the Codezero kernel and the NOVA hypervisor. The former is primarily targeted at ARM platforms, the latter at x86 virtualization. Moreover, there is a new management concept for real-time priorities, which can be used in conjunction with the real-time schedulers of the L4ka::Pistachio and OKL4 kernels. Beside many improvements and refinements of the existing parts of the framework, we incorporated the initial port of the Python script interpreter into this release.

The substantial base-platform enhancements introduced with the current release are motivated by our goal to establish the framework as a unified development environment for implementing dynamic workload on microkernel-based system and at the same time enable users to benefit from the strengths of the different kernels.

Read on about the new base platforms and the many improvements of the framework in the release notes for version 10.02...

Genode Labs leaves behind its infancy

In spring 2008, Genode Labs was founded with the simplest legal status possible, a loose bond of two persons, in Germany called Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts (GbR). This provided an unbureaucratic, cheap, and quick way to get our business going. In December, we left this stage behind and changed the legal status to "Gesellschaft mit beschränker Haftung" (GmbH), which is comparible with a british Limited and the most common legal status used for private companies in Germany. For us this important symbolic step marks the completion of the intial bootstrapping procedure of our venture.

Genode OS Framework version 9.11 released

With the release 9.11 of the Genode OS framework, we start to fully leverage the strong underpinnings of the framework built-up with the previous releases. This enabled us to introduce major new functionality such as a paravirtualized Linux kernel, which allows the execution of off-the-shelf Linux programs isolated from security-sensitive applications, both executed on the same machine. For native Genode applications, we significantly improved the infrastructure by making standard programming interfaces such as socket-based TCP/IP, and popular libraries such as Freetype2 available. The completeness of this infrastructure is best illustrated by our native port of the Qt4/Webkit browser engine to the framework. With regard to driver support, we extended our Linux-device-driver environment, which facilitates the use of unmodified Linux drivers as separate processes on Genode. In particular, the current release complements our USB stack with support for USB storage devices.

These changes and a long list of further improvements are described in full detail in the release notes of version 9.11...

Live CD demonstrating latest Genode features

Shortly, after our first company's birthday we are proud to present to you some of the latest features incorporated in Genode in form of a new Live CD. Beside of the already known graphical demonstration of Genode's architecture, it features small demos of the QT4 support and Linux running on top of Genode. This version runs on Qemu, VirtualBox, or PC hardware. Download the ISO image at Genode project website...