HelenOS

HelenOS is an experimental multiserver microkernel-based operating system which has recently got support for running on BeagleBoard XM and BeagleBone development boards.

​HelenOS is a microkernel-based multiserver operating system designed from scratch. It decomposes key operating system functionality such as file systems, networking, device drivers and user interface into many isolated but intensively communicating server processes that reside entirely in user space. HelenOS thus provides a computing environment that has several virtues, such as flexibility, increased robustness, well defined explicit interfaces and reduced complexity of individual components as compared to other operating systems. HelenOS does not aim to be another clone of Unix or some other legacy system and is not POSIX-compliant (even though some of its components may seem POSIX-similar at times). Instead, we try to design it according to our taste and sense for what is the most elegant and right thing to do. What makes HelenOS unique among the other multiserver operating systems is its multiplatform and multiprocessor microkernel. HelenOS runs on seven different processor architectures, ranging from a 32-bit uniprocessor little-endian ARMv4 and commodity x86 and x86-64 PC to a 64-bit multicore big-endian UltraSPARC T1. We have recently added (and are actively enhancing) the support for two new ARMv7 platforms: BeagleBoard XM and BeagleBone. Homepage: http://www.helenos.org Registrar: jermj0bm