Linked by Steffen Liebergeld on Thu 13th Jul 2006 17:26 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes DROPS is the educational operating system of the Dresden University of Technology, Germany (TU-Dresden). Its name is an acronym for Dresden Real-Time Operating System, which reveals its strongest feature, it is real-time capable and it is designed with security in mind. Its homepage can be found here. Note: This is the 4th entry to our Alternative OS Contest which runs through 14th July!
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by Eric Martin on Thu 13th Jul 2006 20:44 UTC
Eric Martin
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2005-11-11

Security and reliability have similar goals.

http://www.minix3.org/

Less code in the kernel = better reliability and security.