Wind River Systems has acquired technology that lets it provide an embedded Linux OS for devices that need responses in real time. Wind River has completed the acquisition of real-time technology, ...

Real-time processing capabilities are now included in the main release of the Linux kernel, allowing developers to implement embedded Linux systems more easily. The move could also lead to more stable ...

A real-time system must respect time constraints to ensure that its execution makes functional sense. It must be deterministic, ensuring the execution of system processes a priori. After analyzing the ...

An RTOS is a specialized operating system designed to handle time-critical tasks with precision and reliability. Unlike general-purpose operating systems like Windows or macOS, an RTOS is built to ...

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Canonical said PREEMP_RT makes the kernel more preemptive than mainline Linux. Real-time Ubuntu is intended to offer performance, low latency, and security for telco infrastructure, with the kernel ...

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 ...

Purchase of RTLinux technology--used for devices like animatronic robots--opens new markets for Wind River's embedded Linux efforts. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Concurrent Computer announced at the Automotive Testing Expo in Detroit the commercial availability of its SIMulation Workbench modeling environment on its iHawk real-time Linux platforms. SIMulation ...

Linux is many things to many people. For me, it's served just about every purpose that an operating system is capable of. I've used it on desktops, servers, phones, tablets, the cloud, and countless ...

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