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The FAQ of a competitor (who uses "secure" in every other sentence) has been a source of amusement before. It provides another gem, also in the section that discusses the security of their product:
"... hypervisor is small, and written in assembly language. [...] As an assembly coded product it is also much more ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on August 31 at 05:24 PM
Open Kernel Labs has been nominated for the SYS-CON Annual Virtualization Reader’s Choice Award in the categories of “Best Application Virtualization”, “Best Device Virtualization” and “Best Virtual Security”. For the next three months, online voting will be open.
If you want to support OK Labs, here is what you need ...
Posted by Brenna Walters on August 30 at 10:20 AM
OKL4 2.1 is the first public release of an L4 microkernel (and, I believe, the first commercial modern microkernel or hypervisor) that uses capability-based protection. But what does this mean?
Capabilities (caps) are an operating-system security concept. They are tokens conveying access rights, often likened to keys. ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on August 26 at 01:23 AM
Ich mag microkernels...
OK Labs is headed to the Open Source in Mobile World 2008 in Berlin, Germany! We will be hosting a meet-up in conjunction with "The Great OSiM Pub Quiz" Wednesday, September 17th at 7:00PM at the Irish Pub in the Europa-Center Berlin. 
Come hang out and test your open source knowledge with us ...
Posted by Abi Nourai on August 21 at 03:46 PM
I'm making my L4 teaching/training slides available for general use, see the web site of my UNSW course on Advanced Operating Systems. The slides contain some general microkernel and L4 material, as well as a detailed discussion of the OKL4 API (specifically the OKL4 2.1 release).
This is the structure:
Posted by Gernot Heiser on August 18 at 05:24 AM
Thanks to everyone who came to the Meet-Up at the Thirsty Bear during LinuxWorld 2008.
Check out pictures of Iggy at the conference here.
Posted by Tim Heath on August 10 at 03:56 PM
This is the title of a talk I gave at LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week. I thought people might be interested in the slides for the talk. They list a number of use cases for embedded virtualization (although limited to what is relevant to the Linux community, there are more beyond that). I also summarise the ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on August 07 at 08:16 PM
On the 10th anniversary of the creation of Symbian Ltd, Nokia has announced that they will be acquiring Symbian Ltd with the aim of opening up the Symbian OS under an Eclipse based license. The mobile operating system market is really getting a shake up at the moment!
The Symbian Foundation has been created to build a ...
Posted by Benno Leslie on August 05 at 04:42 PM
Iggy and the team set out on a trek crossing the Akshayuk Pass. It's situated within the Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island in the Nunavut of Canada's arctic. The meaning of Auyuittuq in Inuktitut is "the land that never melts" (this was before the glaciers started receding).This was a very ambitious trek not ...
Posted by Tim Heath on August 01 at 10:31 AM
Since many embedded systems are highly resource-constrained, it is important for developers to understand how much memory a particular software component requires. However, like with any other form of benchmark, the devil is in the detail, and it is essential to make an "apples to apples" comparison. This is important ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on July 23 at 02:09 AM
Thanks to everyone who came to the meet-up in Sydney at the Red Oak.
Check out the pictures of Iggy and the rest of the group.
Iggy has been tagging along on several vacations. We will continue to post pictues of Iggy's travels on flickr. Keep up to date on Iggy's adventures here.
Posted by Daniel Potts on July 18 at 10:24 AM
While it is steamy hot in Chicago I have decided to embark on an epic journey to the Canadian Arctic Circle. But it really wouldn’t be a properly led trip without Iggy in the lead. Yes, I know Iggy’s natural terrain is not frozen icebergs and expansive moraines. But he is tough and will most likely be leading the pack. ...
Posted by Tim Heath on July 17 at 11:44 AM
OK Labs Heads to LinuxWorld and we're hosting another Meet-up.
Details:
(Details about why we are really there)
What: OK Labs Meet-up in conjunction with LinuxWorld
Where: 661 Howard Street (right behind Moscone Convention Center) San Francisco
When: 4pm Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Posted by Tim Heath on July 15 at 03:56 PM
In a recent article our competitors, tell the story of the two OSes (Linux and RTOS) and argue that a system virtual machine is the right approach to make this work on a single (DSP) core. However, they really are pulling wool over the readers' eyes.
While in the introduction they pretend to be talking about system ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on July 13 at 07:50 PM
I was asked this question by a reader of my recent article Microkernels Rule! in embedded.com. The short answer is that hypervisors are becoming microkernels.
Yes, there's a convergence, but it's mostly the hypervisors that are changing. Microkernels have been successfully used as hypervisors
for over ten years (L4Linux ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on July 04 at 03:52 AM