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Genode OS Improves Intel GPU Driver, Sandboxing Enhancements


A new version of the Genode open-source operating system framework was released last week that powers its Sculpt OS general purpose OS and over the years has proven to be an interesting technical grounds for those interested in OS concepts.

With Genode OS Framework 25.05 they have updated their standard toolchain against GCC 14.2 and GNU Binutils 2.44. More excitingly is that Genode OS 25.05 comes with a revised Framework API with some nice design improvements, the Goa SDK has seen more work around sandboxing for greater security, and there are Intel graphics driver improvements. The Intel graphics driver work this cycle was focused on better power management since up until now the Intel GPU driver once initialized hadn't attempted any power-savings techniques.

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