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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
We've built things on seL4 (https://github.com/auxoncorp/ferros). We like to joke that it's the most perfect piece of nearly featureless software ever made.
There's... A LOT... of work to do before seL4 is going to be anywhere near usability parity with something like Linux, unfortunately.
Rather than make a general purpose OS, we decided to use it more like a unikernel or "library OS" where you're trying to make a well defined kind of "appliance" image to deploy to specific hardware rather than try to fake being a POSIX-y shaped OS.
That might be less of a challenge than you think. One of our engineers added a nice little KV store via TickV (https://github.com/jonlamb-gh/ferros-sabrelite-toy-system) to be able to do persistent storage in a useful way on a per application basis.
Our current plan, whenever we can get to it, is to implement a SQLite VFS layer (they did a really nice job abstracting away the database from the storage) to be able to host SQLite in a FerrOS task so that your local filesystem is a SQLite database.
Just email me ([email protected]) or post some issues on GH if you want to connect with folks who work on FerrOS. Heck, depending on what happens with some of our SBIRs we'll probably end up hiring a couple people to work on it full-time to do the stuff I mentioned.