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Live Demo CD of Microkernel-Based TUD:OS Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yet-another-contender-in-the-os-sweepstakes dept.

Norman Feske writes "The OS Group of Technische Universität Dresden (TUD:OS) has released a live demo CD of their custom operating system project. TUD:OS is a microkernel-based operating system targeted at secure and real-time systems. Some highlights of the demo CD include a new approach for securing graphical user interfaces called Nitpicker, multiple L4Linux kernels running at the same time on top of a custom L4 microkernel, a survey on the reuse of device drivers on the TUD:OS platform, native Qt-applications, the DOpE windowing system, games, and a lot more. More information is available at the demo CD website demo.tudos.org. And yes, there are screenshots, too!"

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  1. you convinced me by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...the DOpE windowing system...

    That's all I needed right there. I'm checking this out right now.

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  2. TURD OS by Anoraknid+the+Sartor · · Score: 3, Funny

    so near, and yet so far....

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  3. in debian by Janek+Kozicki · · Score: 2, Funny

    so in debian a package kernel-image*.deb was renamed to linux-kernel*.deb just so that packages netbsd-kernel*.deb, hurd-kernel*.deb or openbsd-kernel*.deb can be added. Now I'm anxious to see plans for including tudos-kernel*.deb in debian.

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  4. Whats with the linux thing by tecker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok they specify that this "L4Linux" is a modified kernel to allow linux programs to run. Now is it using a virtualiztion layer and running a FULL kernel or is it a PARTIAL kernel that simply provides familliar hooks that the real linux kernel uses.

    If it is a Partial kernel do they have plans to include something like Xen to allow for the use of this as a server base and then have linux on top?

    Somebody set me strait.

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  5. Re:If they managed to create something like this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They keep having to rewrite it, because the hardware is improving faster than the ability of EMACS to bog it down.

  6. Re:It's German, eh ? by LightningBolt! · · Score: 3, Funny

    So why do the turn indicators on Mercs and BMWs never work?

    Based purely on observation, I'd guess it has something to do with radio interference from the drivers' cell phones.

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  7. Re:It's German, eh ? by Hakubi_Washu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because they have a built-in right of way (they are expensive enough for that :-P)

  8. Re:FINALLY! by RatOfTheLab · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed, KUD:OS to TUD:OS

  9. Naming??! by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the screenshots:

    ...applications running natively on the L4/Fiasco microkernel

    Indeed, a complete fiasco ;-)

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