Genode is a new OS architecture that is able to align high security, robustness, and deterministic system behaviour with dynamic application workload. The project has now released its first ready-to-boot Live CD that demonstrates the key ideas of the architecture in an interactive fashion using a custom GUI and a number of example applications. It runs on Qemu, VirtualBox, and a range of native PC hardware.
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Virtual PC does support 16bit modes, but it isn't as reliable as 32bit. I often have problems with 16bit modes in Linux under Virtual PC, which are fixed in 32bit modes. However other OSs eg Syllable [www.syllable.org] work fine in 16bit modes.
Furthermore, the TU Dresden OS live cd [http://demo.tudos.org/] (also based on L4) works fine in Virtual PC for me!
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I love that in the chalanges section they have "port it to the QNX kernel. http://www.pan.com/gukkle/showcontrol/mic/
that is a really smart idea, super fast, super stable, and incredibly scalible.
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Booted up easily from a CD. But...
The running system looked nothing at all like the screenshot shown at at the Genode website: No launchpad, no colored boxes, nothing other than "Scout" filling the screen and showing a series of informational pages. There are no other menus other than the Scout browsing tools, no way to close "Scout", and no way to end Genode or reboot.
Apparently, the "Demonstration" is simply a series of FAQs about Genode? Or it didn't boot properly? Or I misunderstand the bootable CD entirely?
Somehow I expected something more usable, at least a functional demonstration, from a project that's advanced to Version 8.
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If you follow the tutorial in scout, you'll find an link that says something like "click this link to open launchpad". You click it, it launches launchpad and from launchpad you can launch everything else, as described in the tutorial. Agreed, it would be nicer to have launchpad launched from the beginning.
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That's much better, thanks. 
I don't wish for the world from a 3MB download, but I had expected to see something vaguely resembling the publicity screenshot.
This looks like a very interesting project, and I look forward to seeing it's continued development. Imagine a mature operating system with this sort of control riding on top.