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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @07:31AM from the too-specialized-to-count dept.

^switch writes "Aussies at NICTA have developed a para-virtualized Linux called Wombat that they claim outperforms native Linux. From the article: 'The L4 Microkernel works with its own open source operating system Iguana, which is specifically designed as a base for use in embedded systems.'" Specific performance results are also available from the NICTA website.

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Curious warning on the website (Score:5, Funny)

by LiquidCoooled ( 634315 ) writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @07:32AM (#15434194) Homepage Journal

Warning

Running a virtual Iguana OS from within a virtualised Linux environment is dangerous.
ETROS and NICTA will not be held responsible for any resulting time paradoxes.

hmmmm

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Re:Curious warning on the website (Score:5, Funny)

by Rorian ( 88503 ) writes: <`moc.liamg' `ta' `hsyf.semaj'> on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @07:38AM (#15434213) Homepage Journal

Well thats the answer to the better-than-native performance then. It simply creates a hole in the space-time continuum, off-loads all processing work to the infinite monkies with infinite abacuses, and reports 0.0 cpu load to the benchmark program.

Obvious really.

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Re:Curious warning on the website (Score:2, Funny)

by AndroidCat ( 229562 ) writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @07:43AM (#15434223) Homepage

"The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven ... I almost went back in time." -- Steven Wright
Important safety tip, thanks Egon.

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Re:This makes me wonder... (Score:5, Funny)

by bazorg ( 911295 ) writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @07:44AM (#15434227)

Do you think that's air you're breathing now?

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KLAATU... VERATA... (Score:5, Funny)

by dsginter ( 104154 ) writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @08:11AM (#15434325)

NICTA... necktie...

Definitely an n-word.

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A new form of energy (Score:3, Funny)

by waif69 ( 322360 ) writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @08:39AM (#15434440) Journal

If one were to use 33 levels of virtualization on the ARM processor, the efficiency is so great that power may be removed and the system runs on its own efficiency. Yeah! We don't need oil anymore.

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Time to cue up some U2 (Score:4, Funny)

by pmbuko ( 162438 ) writes: <pmbuko AT gmail DOT com> on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @08:39AM (#15434443) Homepage

Even better than the real thing....

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Re:Time to cue up some U2 (Score:4, Funny)

by datafr0g ( 831498 ) * writes: <datafrogNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @08:53AM (#15434504) Homepage

This virtualized Linux moves in mysterious ways, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

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Re:This makes me wonder... ?? (Score:3, Funny)

by electr01nik ( 598106 ) writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @09:01AM (#15434535) Homepage

Yes it does make me wonder..... Running virtualized Linux on virtualized Linux hosted by Linux.... Now that seems to be just a bit overkill does it not....
Yeah but...imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!

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The more microkernels the better? (Score:4, Funny)

by mikael ( 484 ) writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @09:30AM (#15434723)

^switch writes "Aussies at NICTA have developed a para-virtualized Linux called Wombat that they claim outperforms native Linux.

So if a para-virtualised microkernel runs a para-virtualised microkernel running Linux, then there should be an even greater speedup?

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Welcome (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @10:33AM (#15435312)

I for one welcome our new Fast Address-Space Switching overlords!

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Re:This makes me wonder... (Score:5, Funny)

by Hitch ( 1361 ) writes: <hitch@nOSPAm.propheteer.org> on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @10:58AM (#15435553) Homepage

so...it's actually *penguins* all the way down?

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Re:Informative? Only to those w/o senses of humor. (Score:3, Funny)

by Ryan Amos ( 16972 ) writes: on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @11:20AM (#15435745)

Please.

A low slashdot id just means you've been heaping shit on the pile longer than anyone else.

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