Submission + - Contiki: from Niche Hobby OS to PhD Thesis
blboo writes: Remember the Contiki operating
system? A few years back it was used to run web servers and web
browsers on really old home computers such as the Commodore
64 and the 8-bit Atari. Today Contiki has grown up and moved from
being a cute hobby project to a serious embedded
operating system used in research into networked
embedded systems and wireless sensor networks. In fact, it has
matured so much that Adam Dunkels, the author of Contiki,
earlier today announced his PhD
thesis on Contiki and its components; protothreads and the
uIP embedded TCP/IP stack. It is an interesting direction for a niche hobby OS to take and probably quite different from what people expected Contiki to become when it first was released.