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A new and allegedly super secure microkernel was made open source today, a move that could have serious security implications across a number sensitive and increasingly connected fields. General ...

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Jonathan Shapiro, one of the chief developers of the BitC language and Coyotos operating system, is joining Microsoft to work on Midori. Shapiro announced via the BitC mailing list that he will be ...

However, SeL4 can be used, in theory, as a foundation for Linux and other Unix related operating systems. For example, it was briefly considered for use in Richard M. Stallman's still-born Gnu Hurd ...

Disagreements exist about whether or not microkernels are good. It's easy to get the impression they're good because they were proposed as a refinement after monolithic kernels. Microkernels are ...

Real-time operating system kernels in embedded systems need to be configurable. Unfortunately many of today's commercial real-time kernels are monolithic. These optimized code packages are difficult ...

The seL4 microkernel, the “world’s most highly assured OS”, has just been released as open source, which will help it evolve beyond its military use, says NICTA. seL4 is a joint project between NICTA ...

The port is only in prototype stage and according torelease notes “currently only supports running in 64-bit mode without FPU or multicore support on the Spike simulation platform.” “There is no ...

Miray Software has developed the Sphere SP 2.0.microkernel to provide realtime performance for 32-bit processors. At 21Kbyte, it is suitable for embedded systems. Sphere SP 2.0 speeds creation of ...