OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20422/Live-CD_Demonstration_of_the_Genode_OS_Framework Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Sweet! :) http://www.osnews.com/thread?334555 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334555 The demo iso works like charm in Virtualbox (for me at least). Genode is shaping up nicely! Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wannabe geek) Comments Not working on VMWARE 6.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334564 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334564 on vMWARE is not working. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nehemoth) Comments Hopefully... http://www.osnews.com/thread?334566 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334566 we will see it on Syllable. Does anyone know if Genode provides a device driver framework? Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments nice http://www.osnews.com/thread?334568 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334568 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. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments Hmm..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?334572 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334572 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. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bobthearch) Comments RE: Hmm..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?334579 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334579 Yes, that's it. It's still in a very early state of development.

They use a Ubuntu-like naming scheme - they are not at version 8, but in year 2008. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (johkra) Comments RE: Hmm..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?334583 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334583 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. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wannabe geek) Comments RE[2]: Hmm..... http://www.osnews.com/thread?334593 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334593 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. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bobthearch) Comments RE: Not working on VMWARE 6.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334594 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334594 Doesn't work on Virtual PC either - "Could not set vesa mode 1024x768@16". Also it seems to assume a reasonable amount of memory - it wouldn't boot with 32MB. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morph) Comments RE[2]: Not working on VMWARE 6.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334609 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334609 It's not claimed to work on VirtualPC or VMWare:

...has been tested on Qemu and VirtualBox.

Have you tried the bootable CD? Worked great for me, and without being dependent on an emulator/simulator. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bobthearch) Comments RE[3]: Not working on VMWARE 6.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334615 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334615
It's not claimed to work on VirtualPC or VMWare

Indeed, it isn't. Consider the parent posts public service announcements.
Now it has been tested on VMware and VirtualPC, and we know for sure the results ;) Edited 2008-10-22 22:41 UTC Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morph) Comments RE[2]: Not working on VMWARE 6.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334640 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334640 Hi, it would be nice to know, why it cannot set the VESA mode. Don't Vmware and VirtualPC support 16 bit graphics modes (at all/in your setup)? Unfortunately, we do not have access to these products. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (krishna) Comments RE[3]: Not working on VMWARE 6.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334754 http://www.osnews.com/thread?334754 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! Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morph) Comments