Wombat (operating system)

This article is about the operating system. For other uses, see Wombat (disambiguation).
Wombat
DeveloperNational ICT Australia
OS familyL4
Initial release2004; 20 years ago (2004)[1]
Latest release2.6.9.1
Marketing targetEmbedded systems
Available inEnglish
Platformsx86, ARM, MIPS
Kernel typeMicrokernel paravirtualised Linux (running on L4Ka::Pistachio and IGUANA)[2]
LicenseGPLv2[2]

In computing, Wombat is an operating system, a high-performance virtualised Linux embedded operating system marketed by Open Kernel Labs, a spin-off of National ICT Australia's (now NICTA) Embedded, Real Time, Operating System Program.

Wombat is a de-privileged (paravirtualised) Linux running on an L4 and IGUANA system. It is optimized for embedded systems.[1]

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