Genode
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Genode is a novel OS architecture that aims to improve software safety by applying a strict organizational structure to all software components including device drivers, system services, and applications. Within the Genode project, the Operating System framework is an open-source tool kit for building highly secure component-based operating systems, whereas Sculpt is a pre-built distribution for personal computers and smartphones. Genode is frequently used in academia for computer science research.
Genode is a novel OS architecture that aims to improve software safety by applying a strict organizational structure to all software components including device drivers, system services, and applications. Within the Genode project, the Operating System framework is an open-source tool kit for building highly secure component-based operating systems, whereas Sculpt is a pre-built distribution for personal computers and smartphones. Genode is frequently used in academia for computer science research. ==History== Genode was first conceived as the Bastei OS Architecture research report at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden). The focus of the report was to determine the practicality of a component-based OS using capability-based security. This work was influenced by concurrent research at Dresden into virtualisation and microkernels which would itself mature into the NOVA microhypervisor subsequently adopted as the Sculpt kernel. Following the success of an early prototype, the authors of the report founded the company Genode Labs to develop Bastei as the Genode OS Framework. On 29 May 2026, with the release of Genode 26.05, the project's primary source code repository was migrated from GitHub to Codeberg. ==Overview== Genode OS framework is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose operating systems. It scales from embedded systems with as little as 4 MB of memory to highly dynamic general-purpose workloads. ==Releases== Genode is offered as free and open source software with commercial licensing available on request. ==Reception== Genode acknowledge that the unorthodox interface of Sculpt may intimidate some users. ==See also== HelenOS, a desktop microkernel based operating system QNX, a proprietary Unix-like operating system hosted by a microkernel Qubes OS, a desktop operating system that provides security through virtualization Fuchsia, a capability based OS from Google Capability-based security RedoxOS ==References== TrApps: Secure Compartments in the Evil Cloud Development of an Embedded Platform for Secure CPS Services Secure-OS project of IIT Madras Kernel isolation of a Capability-based security Operating System Mobile Device Security with ARM TrustZone
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