Software:Wombat (operating system)
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Short description: Microkernel operating system
Developer | National ICT Australia |
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OS family | L4 |
Initial release | 2004[1] |
|Final release|Latest release}} | 2.6.9.1 |
Marketing target | Embedded systems |
Available in | English |
Platforms | x86, ARM, MIPS |
Kernel type | Microkernel paravirtualised Linux (running on L4Ka::Pistachio and IGUANA)[2] |
License | GPLv2[2] |
In computing, Wombat is an operating system, a high-performance virtualised Linux embedded operating system marketed by Open Kernel Labs, a spin-off of National ICT Australia's (now NICTA) Embedded, Real Time, Operating System Program.
Wombat is a de-privileged (paravirtualised) Linux running on an L4 and IGUANA system. It is optimized for embedded systems.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Beta release of Kenge, Iguana and Wombat". http://l4hq.org/oldnews.php.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Leslie, Ben; van Schaik, Carl; Heiser, Gernot (April 2005). "Wombat: A portable user-mode Linux for embedded systems" (pdf). Proceedings of Linux.conf.au (Canberra) (2005). https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/publications/papers/Leslie_vSH_05. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
External links
- Wombat: A portable user-mode Linux for embedded systems (presentation slides)
- Virtualised os: wombat
- Iguana
- L4 Based Operating Systems
- L4.Sec Microkernel Specification
- NICTA L4-embedded Kernel
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat (operating system).
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