Hi everyone, I would like to give the following talk: Title: The microkernel OS Escape My name: Nils Asmussen Length: 30-40 min. Abstract: Escape is a UNIX-like microkernel operating system which I'm developing since october 2008 as a hobby. It runs on x86 and the two rather exotic architectures ECO32 and MMIX. It supports multitasking, multithreading and SMP and has a quite advanced memory management. The userspace consists of drivers (ATA/ATAPI, ext2- and iso9660 filesystem, PCI, VGA, VESA and a few others), libraries (libc, libcpp), simple versions of the well known UNIX tools (ls, ps, cat, head, less, ...) and a small GUI. In the talk I'll give an overview about Escape and explain the most important concepts. Especially, I'll present the virtual file system that the kernel provides and that is among others used for getting access to drivers. Best regards, Nils