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Genode OS Framework release 15.11 | 2015-11-30
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| The primary focus of version 15.11 is the use of Genode as a desktop
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| OS. It vastly improves the GUI and audio stacks, features the port of Intel
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| KMS from Linux, extends the support for the USB Armory and Xilinx Zynq-7000,
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| and introduces new file-system infrastructure such as a VFS server.
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Whereas the previous release marked the point where the very first user adopted
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Genode as day-to-day OS, we maintained the direction to create a Genode-based
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desktop OS. Most improvements of the new version are related to this goal:
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The GUI and audio stacks have become much more modular, dynamic, and flexible.
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With a new copy-and-paste mechanism, we added a universally expected
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desktop-integration feature in a unique way that mitigates the misuse of the
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clipboard as a covert communication mechanism. Those higher-level features
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are complemented with profound low-level device-driver improvements, most
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noteworthy the addition of the Intel KMS driver. This driver allows us to
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drive multiple displays and switch screen resolutions on the fly.
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What high- and low-level components have in common, is the use of Genode's
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uniform configuration concept, which solves a variety of configuration
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problems with a single low-complexity mechanism. It allows us to modify
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all kinds of system configurations - ranging from the wireless driver
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to the style of window decoration - live by merely editing and saving
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text files.
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Even though the majority of improvements are attributed to the use of
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Genode as desktop OS, the release also covers other areas.
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Xilinx Zynq-7000 has been added to the supported platforms, TrustZone on
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the USB Armory received a lot of attention, and a new VFS server makes
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Genode's file-system infrastructure much more flexible.
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These and many more topics are covered in detail by the
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[http:/documentation/release-notes/15.11 - release documentation of version 15.11...]
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Genode OS Framework release 15.08 | 2015-08-31
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Genode OS Framework release 15.08 | 2015-08-31
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