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 ...

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This patch set reduces kernel latencies to ensure predictable task execution. Canonical said PREEMP_RT makes the kernel more preemptive than mainline Linux. Real-time Ubuntu is intended to offer ...

Embedded-Linux company says it's created technology that lets people slam the brakes on Linux in a computing emergency. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Wind River Systems Inc. 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 Linux is critical to the mobile handset and telecommunications markets. Over the past five years, the standard Linux kernel has made significant gains in delivering better real-time ...

Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...

Real Software is adding the ability to migrate Windows applications to Linux in an upgrade of the company’s Realbasic tool. Available Wednesday, Version 5.5 of Realbasic includes a conversion utility ...