Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista Software last week launched the Open Source Real-Time Linux project, an initiative aimed at bolstering the ability of Linux to run as a real-time operating system in ...

In the early days of the IBM PC era, when you wanted to know if a system was "IBM PC compatible", you'd try running Lotus Flight Simulator on it. That program exercised the system's hardware and ...

QuickLogic Corporation announced a partnership with TimeSys to deliver ready-to-run TimeSys Linux RTOS Professional Edition software development kits (SDK) for the QuickMIPS family of programmable ...

Over the past 10 years, Linux has successfully unseated some leading legacy RTOS platforms as the new embedded operating system of choice for a wide array of embedded devices and applications. Once ...

New challenges have always excited Linux and its evangelist followers namely the Linux community. With the latest release of Linux, the community claims that they are offering Linux to be more or less ...

When selecting the optimal OS for an embedded systems project it is important to compare the available options – will RTOS or Linux serve best? asks Graeme Wintle. At a top level, the choice is ...

Analyzing "hard" and "soft" real-time deadlines is critical when determining whether to assign application-software containers to Linux or an RTOS. Partitioning a multiprocessor system poses a ...

In this paper, the authors present their experiences of building Linux/RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) hybrid operating environments on Xen and Gandalf Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs). Xen is a ...

Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that will almost ...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. And that's what Enea and Metrowerks have done. Their collaboration merges the OSE Nucleus and OSEck real-time operating system (RTOS) with Metrowerks Linux and the ...