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L3-L4 Microkernel Family - http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/
Lean, with fast, message-based, synchronous IPC, simply-used external paging mechanisms, security mechanism based on secure domains: tasks, clans, chiefs. Kernels try to implement only a minimal set of abstractions on which OSs can be built flexibly. L3 has system-wide persistence. |
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http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/ - http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/
Preemptible, realtime, 2nd-generation microkernel, fast, maintainable, readable, supports hard priorities, uses non-blocking synchronization for kernel objects to guarantee priority inheritance, ensure runnable high-priority processes never block waiting for lower ones; rework of L4 interface. [Open Source, GPL] |
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L4Ka Project - http://l4ka.org/
L4-based microkernel systems, for embedded systems to huge servers; Pistachio kernel. L4: tiny, fast, 2nd generation microkernel using hierarchical external pagers and guarded page tables. Goals: create, prove, establish new methodology for systems that helps manage growing complexity, minimize legacy dependence. |
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L4 Microkernel Family - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family
Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia. |
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DROPS - The Dresden Realtime Operating System Project - http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/overview.html
L4 and Linux based research project aiming at the support of applications with Quality of Service requirements. At TU Dresden. |
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http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~disy/Mungi/ - http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~disy/Mungi/
Orthogonally persistent, capability-based secure SASOS using L4 2nd generation microkernel. Goals: Prove SASOSs can run on normal hardware, be as secure as normal OSs; can be as efficient as, and are faster than, normal OSs in some important uses; can be pure SASOSs with all data (even system data) in one address space and no other IPC mechanism is supported by OS. POSIX emulating. [Open Source, GPL] |
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L4 Microkernel - http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~disy/L4/
L4/MIPS: stable L4 for MIPS R4x00 processor, may be fastest kernel for this architecture. L4/Alpha: begun at Technical University of Dresden, SMP version released. Linux ports: L4/MIPS, L4/Alpha underway. |
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L4/Darwin: Darbat - http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/darbat/
Experimental port of Darwin to L4 to study traits of large-scale microkernel-based system; has port of IOKit to L4, modified libc to communicate to Darbat Server, XNU with many machine-dependent parts highly modified. National ICT Australia. |
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http://www.perseus-os.org/ - http://www.perseus-os.org/
A secure platform for applications that use digital signatures. Based on L4 and Linux. Research project at Applied Data Security Group, Ruhr-University Bochum., Germany. |
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Virtualised OS: Wombat - http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/kenge/wombat/latest/
Experimental port of Linux to run on L4/Iguana; is not intended to be standalone, best used as part of Iguana project. National ICT Australia. |