[ Thanks to LinuxDevices.com for this link.
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“The world’s leading developers of real time and embedded
Linux implementations, gathered together this week for the Real
Time Linux Workshop (at the University of Technology in
Vienna, Austria), have reached consensus on standardizing a real
time ”application programming interface” (API) which will vastly
expand the use of Linux in non-desktop real time and embedded
applications. The proposed embedded and real time API is based on
Cygnus’ EL/IX. The result is expected to be a Linux implementation
that can handle the performance-critical and mission-critical
requirements of non-desktop, ”real world” applications for
Linux.”
“If this EL/IX based approach succeeds, it will accelerate the
already growing acceptance of Linux in the embedded and real-time
systems market….”