Contiki 2.7 Released 21
An anonymous reader writes "Version 2.7 of the Contiki operating system has been released. The open source Contiki OS is known for its minuscule IPv6 stack that allows the tiniest of Systems-on-a-Chips – microprocessors with built-in 2.4 GHz radios – to connect to the Internet. The 2.7 release improves the IPv6 mesh routing mechanism so that the Systems-on-a-Chip autonomously can form wireless networks."
Contiki implements protothreads (Score:5, Informative)
One reason [muneebali.com] for it's awesomeness.
Does anyone bundle Contiki? (Score:4, Informative)
The supported hardware page [contiki-os.org] lists some of the MCU/RF chips that it supports, but what about actual system manufacturers? Do any routers support it? I know it would form mesh networks, but be it IPv6 or IPv4, it would need a gateway/router that assigns these addresses. Are any of those Contiki based?
Also, this OS - since it has a BSD license, I'm guessing that it's not Linux, but is it any sort of Unix derivative, or something else altogether? What are all the features of this OS? It's wonderful that it's compliant w/ several standards, but what are its features that would make it usable in, say, garage doors, toasters, TVs, home security systems & so on?
Not Unix (Score:5, Informative)
It's something else altogether, originally it was a project to put a multitasking kernel, TCP/IP stack, GUI, and web browser on a Commodore 64, and has since gone in a mesh networking internet-of-things sort of direction.
There was a Slashdot article [slashdot.org] on the original desktop-oriented release, but the links are all dead.