Advent Digerati » Plug http://blog.adventdigerati.com Where Life meets Geek Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:49:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 XOmB Attack! http://blog.adventdigerati.com/2008/12/xomb-attack/ http://blog.adventdigerati.com/2008/12/xomb-attack/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:45:00 +0000 Zack http://blog.adventdigerati.com/?p=20
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Congratulations to the XOmB team, (prononunced “zom’ bee”), for reaching a major milestone in their development: kernel stability.

For everyone who hasn’t been following the Pitt Geeks forums, XOmB is a new middleware architecture, written as much as possible in the D programming language, lying between the HAL and the OS. The “XO” stands for “exo,” as in “exo-kernel.” MIT has written several exo-kernels, it’s main details page was last updated in 1998.

XOmB was written by several University of Pittsburgh CS students starting just after Y2K, and not a year after graduation is the kernel stable enough for LibOSes to be written and tested. It’s a great day for FOSS! (Oh, I didn’t mention it was free before? ;-P)

GIT XOmB
git://github.com/untwisted/xomb.git
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