Tomasz Gajewski
Johannes Kliemann
Valery Sedletski
Cedric Degea
Daniel Collins-
Experimental multi kernel Sculpt 25.10 PC image
With the release of Sculpt 25.10 I take the opportunity to publish also a multi-kernel image version of Sculpt 25.10. Even so not supported officially, the other capability based microkernels of the Genode OS framework are in a principal working state also to power Sculpt OS. I crafted and uploaded an image for interested people, which contains Sculpt 25.10 with the following kernel combinations Continue...
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Lock-screen component for Sculpt 25.10
When leaving your notebook, locking your displays of your running OS is crucial to avoid any kind of harm - to your system, to your data, to your employer ... Same applies to when running Sculpt OS, which provides all features, just a lock screen component needs to be configured. Continue...
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Disk I/O optimization with focus on VBox6 - part 1
This first post provides insight into Genode's block I/O stack as used by VBox6 VMs. It starts by recording the status-quo, examining the different layers involved in providing block I/O for VBox6 and shows initial rework steps to improve I/O throughput. Continue...
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MNT Pocket Reform Sculpt 24.10 Preview Image
Within in the last release cycle we worked on adding and extending the support for the i.MX8MP SoC as also found in one of the SoM options for the MNT Pocket Reform and are happy to show-case a first preview version of Sculpt running on this handy computing device. Continue...
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Control the devices in your testing fleet
Imagine having a number of devices in a testing fleet, which you use to test your changes periodically or on each push to the repository. You are faced with the challenge of controlling these devices. In this article, I describe the solution we at Gapfuit came up with. Continue...
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Building Rust projects with a custom profile
Starting with Rust 1.77, our Rust Goa projects were giving us trouble. My colleague Sebastian was quick to figure out and fix the initial runtime linking problem. However, with that out of the way, the applications would simply crash with a segfault. Continue...
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Genode and RISC OS demo
This is the demo I showed on the RISC OS Southwest show this spring. Continue...
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On-target debugging with GDB on Sculpt OS 24.04
With the recent Sculpt release, we introduced initial on-target debugging support to get the best from the ported GNU debugger (GDB) and our custom debug monitor that fuels the Sculpt runtime. This little hands-on introduction is completed by a live demo. Continue...
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Manually installing wsman(1)
For convenience and to some degree also necessity most of our x86-based test machines feature AMT to power-cycle the system and also gain serial console access via SOL. On recent systems the controlling part is done via WS-MAN, for which a package is not always readily available on Linux distributions. The following post gives short instructions on how to build it manually and illustrates one or the other pitfall. Continue...
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A SIP client for Genode on the PinePhone
We ported the "Linphone Console Client" and the "SIP Client for Ubuntu Touch" to Genode to expand the available features on the PinePhone when it comes to mobile communication. This article illustrates the integration and describes how you can experience it yourself. Continue...
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Create a specialized run target for Goa
If you need special services for your Goa project, you can easily create a customized run target for testing your project. I will describe how you can achieve this in this article with two simple examples. Continue...
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A first complex Rust package
With the release of depot packages for Sculpt OS 23.10, we finally have all building blocks in place to build and run a Rust package without needing to locally build its Genode dependencies. Continue...
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Migration of incompatible File Vault containers
The File Vault is a graphical tool for creating and managing encrypted file containers in Genode. The first official version was published with Sculpt 21.03b. Since then, the File Vault is part of the basic tooling for Sculpt. Continue...
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x86 CPU frequency and power steering with Sculpt 23.10
With Sculpt 23.10 the previous sneak peek feature got integrated into the Genode base framework and hence is readily available with the new Sculpt OS release. Continue...
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Enabling the upstream Rust toolchain
Release 23.05 reintroduced support for the Rust programming language to Genode, but our initial implementation relied on a slightly adapted Rust toolchain. As detailed in my previous blog post, we were working around issues with versioned FreeBSD libc symbols that were unsupported by our linker. Continue...
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Bringing Rust back to Genode
Initial support for the Rust programming language was contributed to Genode release 16.05 by Waylon Cude, but it failed to get traction and was removed again with release 20.05. With the 23.05 release, we bring back Rust support from a different angle. Continue...
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Sneak peek: dynamic CPU frequency steering with Sculpt 23.04
With the Sculpt 23.04 release an proof-of-concept extension is available for managing frequency, power and performance features of your Intel and AMD CPUs on Sculpt. Continue...
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Firefox & Thunderbird VM for Sculpt 23.04
With the Sculpt 23.04 release several ready-to-use VMs powered by Seoul VMM got updated to the latest version. Continue...
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Pine fun - App development or the quest for an SDK
In this article we will describe our approach and reasoning of how we want to support app development on the PinePhone for Genode enthusiasts. Continue...
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Audio pkgs with a twist for Sculpt
Managing the audio driver and mixer is somewhat involved as the generic pkgs require the use of a launcher for run-time changes. The “pkgs with config” mend this by storing the config in a file-system. Continue...
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Genode at the FOSDEM 2023
Last week, I returned from the FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels and it was a great joy for me after all these years to finally see a real-live FOSDEM again. Besides belgian fries and sweetened mate tea, one could once again get a taste of Genode at the conference. This year, the OS framework received 3 presentation in two different tracks. Continue...
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Genode and RISC OS continued
I am a RISC OS user and I love RISC OS. Continue...
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Getting Fujitsu U7411 up and running: Network Boot
Earlier this year, the Genode team met the challenge to bring our OS to recent Intel Gen11 hardware, more precisely we faced the task to fully enable the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK U7411. But first things first: How to prepare the notebook for remote booting without sufficient legacy BIOS support? Continue...
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Creating a captive portal VM for Sculpt
Some 3 years ago, I worked on a minimal and disposable VM for Sculpt that is capable of viewing the landing page of a local network. In many networks, this is necessary in order to gain internet access and therefore even before being able to deploy third-party packages in Sculpt. This article is a briefly polished version of the tutorial I created back then. But it should still apply to newer Sculpt versions. It uses VirtualBox 5 and with TinyCore guest running Firefox. Continue...
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USB smart cards via PKCS#11
With the 22.08 release, Genode gains support for accessing USB smart-card devices like typical authentication and HSM keys via PKCS#11. Continue...
Stories around the Genode Operating System
