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and a variety of voices from the OK team.
We hope you enjoy this glimpse into our culture...
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Posted by Robert C. McCammon on March 04 at 02:58 PM
So, I started with something reasonably straight-forward — update my blog posts so that the <title> tag is set correctly — which quickly led me down the rabbit hole of typographically correct apostrophes, Unicode, XML, encodings, keyboards and input methods. Updating my blog software took about 15 minutes, ...
Posted by Benno Leslie on February 28 at 04:44 PM
In a recent
post Gernot made a comparison between nanokernels and hardware
abstraction layers (HALs). This prompted a question on the
OKL4 developers mailing list: well, couldn’t you consider a microkernel a HAL?
.
I think the logical conclusion, both theoretical and ...
Posted by Benno Leslie on February 25 at 01:01 PM
There are things called "microkernels", such as our OKL4 microkernel. There are also things called "nanokernels". People ask whether there is a difference, after all, "nano" sounds smaller than "micro", right?
The reality is that the term "nanokernel" represents a victory of marketing over substance.
Back in the late ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on February 16 at 09:04 PM
What does the distinction between "trusted" and "trustworthy" mean for computer systems?
People tend to talk of a trusted computer system when they refer to a system that is trusted to perform security- or safety-critical operations. Unsurprisingly, the military and defence communities have worried about this for a ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on February 13 at 12:30 AM
While there was some discussion over what this could mean, we will leave it to you to judge. See video below
Gernot gets blogged: Check out builder au a blog by developers for developers
Posted by Team OK on February 12 at 05:50 PM
Welcome to Gernot Heiser's "Do Microkernels Suck" On-Demand Webinar (48 minutes)
Posted by Gernot Heiser on February 07 at 06:15 PM
Full video to follow.
Posted by Benno Leslie on February 07 at 10:22 AM
When talking about software security with embedded system developers I use both the words trusted and trustworthy frequently. In fact in my most recent post I provided an explanation of the term Trusted Computing Base which is an important concept in software security. At first glance it is tempting to think of trusted ...
Posted by Robert C. McCammon on February 06 at 05:28 PM
I.Q. Information Quarterly Volume 6, Virtualization - What Can it Do for You?
Author: Gernot Heiser, Chief Technology Officer, Open Kernel Labs
Virtualization has been a hot topic in the enterprise space for a while, but has recently become an important technology for embedded systems as well. Virtualization offers ...
Posted by Gernot Heiser on February 06 at 09:52 AM
A lot of the problems we are working on today at OK are issues related to performance and minimizing RTOS overheads. In particular, a typical RTOS or application can invoke many microkernel calls that contribute a significant RTOS overhead. For some applications this is not an issue. However, many embedded applications ...
Posted by Daniel Potts on February 06 at 09:34 AM
President and CEO Steve Surbar was recently interview by MidWest Business. The interview is featured on the Illinois Information Technology Association (ITA) website.
Company Name: Open Kernel Labs
Executive Name: Steve Subar Title: Co-founder, president and CEO
Product/Services: Systems software ...
Posted by Steve Subar on February 01 at 04:17 PM
Well, Wikipedia defines the trusted computing base as follows:
"The trusted computing base (TCB) of a computer system is the set of all hardware, firmware, and software components that are critical to its security. Bugs occurring inside the TCB might jeopardize the security properties of the entire system."
What is ...
Posted by Robert C. McCammon on January 31 at 10:14 AM
After two weeks in California, I spent two days in Sydney, before flying down the sunny Melbourne yesterday for linux.conf.au 2008.
Monday and Tuesday at linux.conf.au are the miniconf days. The wide variety of topics on display make things a little difficult. I was back and forward between ...
Posted by Benno Leslie on January 28 at 02:32 PM
After two weeks in California, I spent two days in Sydney, before flying down the sunny Melbourne yesterday for linux.conf.au 2008.
Monday and Tuesday at linux.conf.au are the miniconf days. The wide variety of topics on display make things a little difficult. I was back and forward between the embedded and ...
Posted by Benno Leslie on January 27 at 04:49 PM