Developers of an open microkernel operating system operating system release . As part of the Sculpt project, based on Genode technologies, a general-purpose operating system is being developed that can be used by ordinary users to perform everyday tasks. Project source code licensed under AGPLv3. Available for download , 26 MB in size. Work is supported on systems with Intel processors and graphics subsystem with VT-d and VT-x extensions enabled.
New release adding a file manager working in graphical mode, redesigning the interactive interface for administration (system settings editor), supporting virtual desktops, optimizing the performance of the virtual machine monitor (based on VirtualBox). Updated system monitoring utilities, Unix runtime and GUI components.
The release also includes improvements introduced in updates to the Genode platform, such as support for 64-bit i.MX ARM processors and porting of the sound driver from OpenBSD 6.6.
The system comes with a Leitzentrale graphical user interface that allows you to perform common system administration tasks. The upper left corner of the GUI displays a menu with tools for managing users, connecting drives, and setting up a network connection. In the center there is a configurator for arranging the filling of the system, which interface in the form of a graph that defines the relationship between system components. The user can interactively remove or add components arbitrarily, defining the composition of the system environment or virtual machines.
At any time, the user can switch to the console management mode, which provides greater flexibility in management. A traditional desktop can be obtained by running a TinyCore Linux distribution in a Linux virtual machine. In this environment, Firefox and Aurora browsers, a Qt-based text editor and various applications are available. The noux environment is offered to run command line utilities.
Recall that Genode a unified infrastructure for creating custom applications running on top of the Linux kernel (32 and 64 bits) or NOVA (x86 with virtualization), seL4 (x86_32, x86_64, ARM), Muen (x86_64), Fiasco.OC (x86_32, x86_64, ARM), L4ka::Pistachio (IA32, PowerPC), OKL4, L4/Fiasco (IA32, AMD64, ARM) and a directly executing kernel for ARM and RISC-V platforms. The included paravirtualized Linux kernel L4Linux, running on top of the Fiasco.OC microkernel, allows regular Linux programs to run on Genode. The L4Linux kernel does not interact directly with the hardware, but uses Genode services through a set of virtual drivers.
Various Linux and BSD components were ported for Genode, Gallium3D was supported, Qt, GCC and WebKit were integrated, and hybrid Linux/Genode environments were implemented. A VirtualBox port has been prepared that runs on top of the NOVA microkernel. A large number of applications are adapted to run directly on top of the microkernel and the Noux environment, which provides virtualization at the OS level. To run non-ported programs, it is possible to use the mechanism for creating virtual environments at the level of individual applications, allowing you to run programs in a virtual Linux environment using paravirtualization.
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