Wombat (operating system)

Wombat
Wombat
Developer	National ICT Australia
OS family	L4
Initial release	2004; 21 years ago
Latest release	2.6.9.1
Marketing target	Embedded systems
Available in	English
Supported platforms	x86, ARM, MIPS
Kernel type	Microkernel paravirtualised Linux (running on L4Ka::Pistachio and IGUANA)
License	GPLv2

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]

References

^ ^a ^b "Beta release of Kenge, Iguana and Wombat". Retrieved 2010-03-12.
^ ^a ^b Leslie, Ben; van Schaik, Carl; Heiser, Gernot (April 2005). "Wombat: A portable user-mode Linux for embedded systems". Proceedings of Linux.conf.au (2005). Canberra. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2016-10-21. Retrieved 2016-10-21 – via ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/papers/Leslie_vSH_05.abstract.

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