Directory of Submicrokernel Resources

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This category is for submicrokernel operating systems: OSs with non-monolithic architectures based on structures smaller than microkernels. Varieties and synonyms: lightweight kernel, nanokernel, picokernel, femtokernel, exokernel, no-kernel, or closely related topics. Most, maybe all object-oriented OS architectures also qualify as submicrokernels. Traditional OS architectures limit application performance, flexibility, functionality by fixing interfaces and implementations of OS abstractions such as interprocess communication and virtual memory. Submicrokernels address these issues in varied ways. Most are runtime extensible. Exokernels address such issues by application-level management of physical resources: they put applications in control, to run 10x or more faster than normal OSs. On this page, OSs are arranged in three groups and levels: 1) Top group: types or classes of OS. 2) Middle group: OSs for which there are more than one instance of an OS of this name/type, an OS family. 3) Bottom group: specific OSs, individual instances; there is only one OS of this name/type.

Subcategories

• BRiX
• Forth
• Nemesis
• Oberon
• Object-Oriented
• PURE
• SPIN
• Self
• Smalltalk
• Squeak
• Stella
• TUNES
• Tao Intent
• ThreadX
• Vapour

Resources in This Category

• dr'ex

  http://drex.sourceforge.net/
  Exokernel written in C/asm for the x86 architecture. Released under GPL.

• dr'ex: SourceForge

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/drex/
  Information, news, forum, CVS, downloads. [Open Source, GPL]

• Elysium

  http://elysium.sourceforge.net/
  Main idea: enforce no abstractions, rather, have them as options, to all levels of system: hardware, kernel and file services, ways users interact with system; based on exo principles. Descriptions, news. [Open Source]

• Exokernel

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel
  Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.

• Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management

  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.52.2893
  Traditional OSs limit application performance, flexibility, functionality by fixing interfaces and implementations of OS abstractions such as interprocess communication and virtual memory. Exokernel address this via application-level management of physical resources. [ResearchIndex]

• Miranda: SourceForge

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-os/
  Downloads, announcements, and a forum. Programming languages: Assembly, C, and C++.

• miray Software

  http://www.miray.de/
  Makes µnOS: 72k microkernel on 8k nanokernel client/server architecture based on OOP framework, symmetric multithreading, multitasking, priority based scheduling, fully interruptible, separated address spaces, and full memory protection. Free download.

• Nanokernel

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanokernel
  Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.

• Unununium Operating Engine

  http://uuu.sourceforge.net/
  Claimed as radical new approach to OSs: no-kernel, self-modifying cells (like objects); single address space, useful where memory and CPU power is low, and maybe for AI. Written in self-modifying, modular assembly language. [Open Source, BSD]

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