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unusual facts about Kernel-based Virtual Machine


Kernel-based Virtual Machine

A wide variety of guest operating systems work with KVM, including many flavours of Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Haiku, ReactOS, Plan 9, and AROS Research Operating System.


B.A.T.M.A.N.

The batman-adv kernel module is part of the official Linux kernel since 2.6.38.

Binary blob

Prominent Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has stated that it is illegal to redistribute closed source modules for the GPL-licensed Linux kernel.

Block Wiedemann algorithm

The block Wiedemann algorithm for computing kernel vectors of a matrix over a finite field is a generalisation of an algorithm due to Don Coppersmith.

Bloombase

In 2007, Bloombase announced StoreSafe virtual appliance edition for enterprise storage system security, supporting virtual machine containers including VMware ESX, Citrix Xen, Oracle VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, IBM PowerVM, and Red Hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

Cryptonomicon

The name is a thinly veiled reference to Linux, a kernel originally written by the Finnish native Linus Torvalds.

CrystalPlayer

Playback engine of CrystalPlayer is a first version of Crystal Reality's playback technology which was later deployed to Yota and SPB Software as the kernel of mobile multimedia services (known as Crystal2 technology)

Decoding Reality

Vedral uses an Italo Calvino philosophical story about a tarot-like card game as the kernel for his metaphor of conscious life arriving in medias res to a pre-existing contextual reality.

DKMS

Dynamic Kernel Module Support, in computing, a framework for building Linux kernel modules outside of the Linux kernel tree

EComStation

These included an updated kernel, a 32-bit TCP/IP stack and associated networking utilities, a firewall, updated drivers and other system components, newer versions of Java, SciTech SNAP Graphics video support, and more.

EID Parry

The company is now expanding its range of products away from Azadirachtin, its core product extracted from neem seed kernel.

Embedded software

This runs from small one-person operations consisting of a run loop and a timer, to LynxOS, VxWorks, BeRTOS, ThreadX, to Windows CE or Linux (with patched kernel).

ERIKA Enterprise

Thanks to the collaboration with the Tool & Methodologies team of Magneti Marelli Powertrain & Electronics, the automotive kernel (BCC1, BCC2, ECC1, ECC2, multicore, memory protection and kernel fixed priority with Diab 5.5.1 compiler) is MISRA C 2004 compliant using FlexeLint 9.00h under the configuration suggested by Magneti Marelli.

Familiar Linux

In May 2000, Alexander Guy took a kernel that had been worked on by Compaq programmers, built a complete Linux distribution around it, and released the first version of Familiar (v0.1).

Feynman checkerboard

One of the first connections between the amplitudes prescribed by Feynman for the Dirac particle in 1+1 dimensions, and the standard interpretation of amplitudes in terms of the Kernel or propagator, was established by Jayant Narlikar in a detailed analysis.

Free60

On the Xbox 360, one such exploit exists, relying on and utilizing a modified DVD-ROM drive firmware, a modified burnt disc of the game King Kong (for Xbox 360), and the target console having either one of two vulnerable Kernel revisions.

GNU/Linux naming controversy

In 1991, the first version of the Linux kernel was released by Linus Torvalds.

Goto

Some programmers, such as Linux Kernel designer and coder Linus Torvalds or software engineer and book author Steve McConnell, also object to Dijkstra's point of view, stating that GOTOs can be a useful language feature, improving program speed, size and code clearness, but only when used in a sensible way by a comparably sensible programmer.

Hans Peter Anvin

In addition to his regular employment at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, Anvin is currently co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree, chief maintainer of the Netwide Assembler (NASM).

IBMDOS.COM

In Digital Research terminology, the kernel component of the operating system is called the BDOS (Basic Disk Operating System), a term originally coined by Gary Kildall in 1975 for CP/M, but which is continued to be used in all other DRI operating systems.

Internet Systems Consortium

ISC also expanded their operational activities to include Internet hosting facilities for other open source projects such as NetBSD, XFree86, kernel.org, secondary name service (SNS) for more than 50 top-level domains, and a DNS OARC (Operations, Analysis and Research Center) for monitoring and reporting of the Internet's DNS.

KDB

KDB, a Kernel debugger, a type of tool used for debugging the kernel for Linux and Unix

Lenox

Linux, the open source Unix-like operating system kernel

Linux range of use

Components of the Linux kernel, such as Netfilter or the Linux network scheduler, in conjunction with the available free and open-source routing daemons BIRD, B.A.T.M.A.N., Quagga and XORP fulfill the task very well.

Lloyd Shapley

His work with M.Maschler and B.Peleg on the kernel and the nucleolus, and his work with Robert Aumann on non-atomic games and on long-term competition have all had a tremendous impact in economic theory.

Marcelo Tosatti

He was brought up in Curitiba, Brazil and worked for Conectiva for six years, during which time he became involved in kernel programming.

MiNT

In 2003, XaAES was integrated into FreeMiNT, as a kernel module, to make it significantly more responsive and faster.

Oracle Linux

In March 2012, Oracle submitted a TPC-C benchmark result using a Sun Fire server running Oracle Linux and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.

Per Brinch Hansen

In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company Regnecentralen, first in the compiler group headed by Peter Naur and Jørn Jensen, and, later, as the chief architect of the RC 4000 minicomputer and its renowned operating system kernel (RC 4000 Multiprogramming System).

Prototype Verification System

PVS is based on a kernel consisting of an extension of Church's theory of types with dependent types, and is fundamentally a classical typed higher-order logic.

PSXLinux

PSXLinux (also known as Runix) is a Linux kernel and development kit for the PlayStation (MIPS-NOMMU).

QEMU

It also provides an accelerated mode for supporting a mixture of binary translation (for kernel code) and native execution (for user code), in the same fashion as VMware Workstation and VirtualBox do.

Robert Love

He also wrote Linux System Programming, is now in its second edition, subtitled Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library, and published by O'Reilly Media.

Saxon Siberia

Apart from a few otherwise very bleak places (such as Jöhstadt, Satzungen, Kuhnheyde, Neudorf, Joh. Georgenstadt, Wiesenthal etc.) where potatoes, cabbages, turnips and oats are grown (albeit the latter hardly ripens but is at least used to produce the necessary straw for cattle), not a single potato grows, let alone a kernel of corn.

Story editor

Marc Abrams of the TV series The Bernie Mac Show said, "As you go from show to show you learn that each has its own temperature and its own etiquette. You recognize your role on that particular show. Certain show runners encourage the lower-level writers to pitch ideas, others don't. Some want ideas well thought out before they are presented, others like to hear the kernel of an idea that could be expanded."

System Monitor

The categories of information that you can monitor depend on which networking services are installed on your system, but they always include File System, Kernel, and Memory Manager.

T-Engine Forum

B-level members who are involved in development of product using T-Engine specification and T-Kernel includes companies like ARM, Freescale, MIPS Technologies, Mitsubishi, Robert Bosch GmbH, Sony Corporation, Toshiba and Xilinx.

Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate

The Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate was a debate between Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds, regarding Linux and kernel architecture in general.

The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System

It covers topics such as IA-32 assembly, the Windows system architecture, kernel debugging, advanced rootkit development, and much more concerning rootkit technology and how it can be applied onto e.g. white hat hacking.

Trillian

Project Trillian, an effort to port the Linux kernel to the Intel IA-64 architecture

Unit Control Block

A similar concept in Unix-like systems is a kernel's devinfo structure, addressed by a combination of major and minor number through a device node.

Userland

Userland (computing), operating system software that does not belong in the kernel

VA Kernel

The VA Kernel is a set of programs, developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs of the United States Government, which provide an operating system and MUMPS implementation independent abstraction to the VistA Hospital Information System.

VTun

It exists as the reference implementation of the Tun/Tap user-space tunnel driver which was included in the Linux kernel as of version 2.4, also originally developed by Maxim Krasnyansky.

Wilseder Berg

The Totengrund was the kernel of the present-day nature reserve when the Egestorf priest, Wilhelm Bode, purchased the Totengrund in 1906 with donations.

XDOS

Pat Villani's XDOS, an early predecessor to NSS-DOS, DOS/NT, DOS-C and the FreeDOS kernel

Yuen Poovarawan

The Microcomputer Research Laboratory, which Yuen was head of, also developed the Thai Kernel System, a hardware-independent system designed to promote system-intercompatibility for Thai-language application development, in 1990, but this failed to gain a user base as it lost ground to the expanding Microsoft Windows systems.

ΜClinux

Initially, they targeted the Motorola DragonBall family of embedded 68k processors (specifically the 68EZ328 series used in the Motorola PalmPilot) on a 2.0.33 Linux kernel.


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