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Contiki 2.7 Released

Posted by timothy on from the it's-cloudy-and-thingy-and-internetty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Version 2.7 of the Contiki operating system has been released. The open source Contiki OS is known for its minuscule IPv6 stack that allows the tiniest of Systems-on-a-Chips – microprocessors with built-in 2.4 GHz radios – to connect to the Internet. The 2.7 release improves the IPv6 mesh routing mechanism so that the Systems-on-a-Chip autonomously can form wireless networks."

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  1. Contiki implements protothreads by Medievalist · · Score: 5, Informative

    One reason for it's awesomeness.

    1. Re:Contiki implements protothreads by Crudely_Indecent · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I forgive you for the errant apostrophe....just so you can't say that the whole world is against you.

      Nobody else will forgive you - but I will.

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  2. Not Unix by Cid+Highwind · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's something else altogether, originally it was a project to put a multitasking kernel, TCP/IP stack, GUI, and web browser on a Commodore 64, and has since gone in a mesh networking internet-of-things sort of direction.
    There was a Slashdot article on the original desktop-oriented release, but the links are all dead.

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