Ironclad - Summary
This group is not part of the GNU Project.
Ironclad is a partially formally verified kernel with a small footprint for general-purpose and embedded OSes, written in SPARK and Ada. It is made to be 100% free software, free in the sense that it respects the user's freedom.
Some of the supported features are:
- A familiar POSIX-compatible interface.
- True simultaneous multitasking.
- Resiliency and small footprint.
- Partial gold-level formal verification.
- Advanced cryptography and a security-centered architecture, including Mandatory Access Control (MAC).
- Hard real-time scheduling and real-time oriented features.
- Support for severals architectures and boards.
Registration Date: Sun 13 Mar 2022 09:15:56 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 2 - Pre-Alpha
posted by streaksu, Tue 04 Mar 2025 09:42:15 PM UTC
This release marks the first release of util-ironclad, the ironclad
alternative for util-linux that distro maintainers can use for
providing system management userland utilities like blkid, ps, dmesg,
lspci, mount/umount, and the like.
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posted by streaksu, Sun 02 Mar 2025 07:37:36 PM UTC
Ironclad will be moving for its donations to Stripe from Paypal. This
is done to make our processing easier and allowing people to do
donations without a PayPal account, just using a credit card or
bank transfer. We feel this is way more privacy respecting and will
[...]
posted by streaksu, Fri 31 Jan 2025 11:39:17 PM UTC
This release comes after a long gap of releases, and has had massive work done on
almost every aspect of the kernel. Because of this, I find it hard to summarize
the changes, but a gist of it is:
This is a non-exhaustive list of the big changes included in this release:
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posted by streaksu, Mon 30 Dec 2024 06:34:06 PM UTC
Ironclad will have an in-person presentation delving into why Ada was chosen for development, advantages of Ada compared with alternatives like C and Rust for the use case of low level development, and how these advantages are used inside Ironclad with the concrete example of driver development inside the kernel, as part of FOSDEM 2025 in [...]





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