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MontaVista Real-time Linux (Overview)
MontaVista Software has helped evolve native, hard real-time developments to the Linux kernel, thus moving closer to achieving interrupt response characteristics previously attributed to specialized and proprietary, commercial real-time operating systems.
In 1999, MontaVista introduced as a patch to the 2.4 Linux kernel, the MontaVista Preemptible Linux Kernel that leveraged the spin-locks that protect critical regions in the Linux...
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Embedded Linux @ Wikipedia
Embedded Linux is the designation for Linux-based operating systems that are used as embedded operating systems in cell phones, personal digital assistants, media player handsets and other consumer electronics devices.
Linux is also suitable for other embedded applications such as networking equipment, machine control, industrial automation, navigation equipment, and medical instruments.
Embedded Linux can be characterized as different...
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Introduction to Linux for Real-Time Control
This report is directed to control engineers and managers.
It is intended to provide an overview of real-time operating systems and particularly of the real-time modications to the Linux operating system in enough detail that the reader can make an informed decision whether to commit the resources to evaluate Linux as a real-time operating system.
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Overview of Linux for the Embedded Application Developer
This paper will give some of the reasons for the success of Linux in the past and it's continued viability in the future for this emerging market.
In addition, a technical overview of Linux is presented, followed by some discussion of graphical windowing system technologies, and an embedded web browser project suitable for mobile applications.
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