Wombat OS
This article is about the operating system. For other uses, see Wombat (disambiguation).
| Developer | National ICT Australia |
|---|---|
| OS family | Embedded operating system |
| Initial release | 2004 [1] |
| Latest release | 2.6.9.1 |
| Platforms | x86, ARM and MIPS |
| Kernel type | Para-virtualised Linux (running on top of L4Ka::Pistachio and Iguana)[2] |
| License | GPLv2[2] |
The Wombat Operating System is a high-performance virtualized Linux marketed by Open Kernel Labs, a spin-off of National ICT Australia (NICTA) - Australia’s prestigious Center of Excellence for Information and Communications Technology's Embedded, Real Time, Operating System Program.
Wombat is a de-privileged (para-virtualised) Linux running on top of L4/Iguana.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 Staff. "Beta release of Kenge, Iguana and Wombat". Retrieved 2010-03-12.
- 1 2 Leslie, Ben; van Schaik, Carl; Heiser, Gernot (April 2005). "Wombat: A portable user-mode Linux for embedded systems". Proceedings of linux.conf.au. Canberra (2005). Archived from the original (pdf) on 2016-10-21. Retrieved 2016-10-21 – via https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/papers/Leslie_vSH_05.abstract.
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
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