Wombat (operating system)
Developer | National ICT Australia |
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OS family | L4 |
Initial release | 2004[1] |
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]
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References[]
- ^ a b "Beta release of Kenge, Iguana and Wombat". Retrieved 2010-03-12.
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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.
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- Operating system stubs
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- Embedded operating systems
- Microkernel-based operating systems
- ARM operating systems