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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. Anyone have a torrent? by jarom · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone have a torrent, or has downloaded the ISO and can make one?

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  2. Explanation of the naming by Florian · · Score: 4, Informative

    "TUD:OS" is simply an acronym of "Technical University Dresden Operating System". Their computer science department has done amazing work on the l4 microkernel, and continues to release all its code under free licenses, btw.

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  3. HURD delays by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2006-03 /msg00091.html seems to indicate that the devs are still discussing HURD...

    ...of course HURD is the Gargantuan Ancient Granddaddy of Cathedral vs Bazaar style development ...

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/samizdat-respons e.html

    ...I can tell you exactly why the HURD tanked. It was listening to a presentation by HURD's project lead in 1996, and realizing the project was doomed, that started me on the train of thought that led to "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". They were trying to do engineering and pure R&D at the same time; they lacked focus or any drive to actually ship code; and their development group was too small and inbred.
  4. Re:Not impressed by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 3, Informative
    First, I had to install proprietary software, mvplayer, to run it.

    Wrong.

    It runs in qemu just fine. It's even described on their site how to do it.

    And you can always burn it onto a physical CD-Rom, and boot it up in a physical machine.

    several of the demos didn't supply a "reboot" option so I had to exit the whole thing, delete the vmware files, except the vmx, and refire wmplayer so I could get the tudos menu again. It's been years since I've run a Linux distro that was this buggy or hard to use.

    It's a CD-based demo, so your vmware files won't have "state" in them anyways. Just kill your vmware, and restart it, without wiping any files.