Systems Groups at ETH Zurich with the help of Microsoft has announced the release of Barrelfish, a new OS for future multi and many-core systems. The project is under MIT license to enable more researchers to work on it. The project is motivated by the; growing number of cores and requiring the OS to manage and exploit heterogeneous hardware resources.

Barrelfish uses multikernel OS model which employs message passing instead of data sharing and enables architecture agnostic inter-core communication, including across non-coherent shared memory and PCIe peripheral buses. This allows a single OS instance to manage the complete collection of heterogeneous, processors as a single, unified platform.


The latest release of Barrelfish can now be obtained by anonymous Mercurial access.

 After Internet abuzz with the news of Nokia discontinuing production of Nokia based phones, now news reports suggests LG is the next big wig to embrace Meego. Though LG not turned up for the MeeGo conference in San Francisco, Meego enthusiasts still thinks LG will role out smart-phones with Meego in future.

Though not officially released, users can grab the latest Firefox edition for Linux. Users can download the Firefox 5.0 from the official site.