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Victor Yodaiken, creator of RTLinux, has provided a brief statement about MontaVista Software's recent press release entitled "MontaVista First to Deliver Hard Real-Time Linux." ...
Real-Time Linux (RTLinux) is a small hard real-time kernel that can run Linux as its lowest priority thread. Begun as a free software project at New Mexico Tech in 1994, RTLinux is now being used in ...
In a statement issued on Friday, the Foundation criticised FSMLabs for the surprise grant of a software patent for RTLinux last year, saying that not only are such patents wrong in general, but ...
In addition to the Spider robot, SHI has developed a RTLinux powered pipe alignment robot also in production use and a third, Stewart-Gough Type 6-axes parallel robot is under development.
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 ...
One of the most demanding applications of real-time control is the active magnetic bearing (AMB). Suspending a shaft rotating faster than 10,000 RPMs in a magnetic field with a gap of .015 ...
RTLinux brings challenges for Wind River’s tools business, because the device driver to support a hardware device under RTLinux is different from the standard Linux driver. Both types of drivers ...
The Free Software Foundation on Friday took aim at RTLinux and FSMLabs, the company that distributes it, claiming that FSMLabs has used a patent license to violate the GNU General Public License.
RTLinuxFree is a free, open-source implementation of FSM Labs' real-time RTLinuxPro, which now supports the Linux 2.6 kernel. RTLinux is a split operating system with a real- ...