Wombat (operating system)

This article is about the operating system. For other uses, see Wombat (disambiguation).

In computing, Wombat is an operating system, a high-performance virtualised Linux embedded operating system marketed by Open Kernel Labs, a spin-off of National ICT Australia's (now NICTA) Embedded, Real Time, Operating System Program.

Wombat

Developer	National ICT Australia
OS family	L4
Initial release	2004; 21 years ago (2004)[1]
Latest release	2.6.9.1
Marketing target	Embedded systems
Available in	English
Platforms	x86, ARM, MIPS
Kernel type	Microkernel paravirtualised Linux (running on L4Ka::Pistachio and IGUANA)[2]
License	GPLv2[2]

Wombat is a de-privileged (paravirtualised) Linux running on an L4 and IGUANA system. It is optimized for embedded systems.^[1]

See also

• L4Linux