Wombat (Operating System)

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Short description: Microkernel operating system
Wombat
DeveloperNational ICT Australia
OS familyL4
Initial release2004; 20 years ago (2004)[1]
|Final release|Latest release}}2.6.9.1
Marketing targetEmbedded systems
Available inEnglish
Platformsx86, ARM, MIPS
Kernel typeMicrokernel paravirtualised Linux (running on L4Ka::Pistachio and IGUANA)[2]
LicenseGPLv2[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

  • L4Linux

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Beta release of Kenge, Iguana and Wombat". http://l4hq.org/oldnews.php. 
  2. ↑ 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




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