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LinuxDevices: SnapGear Embedded Linux Distro Boasts 2.6 Kernel, Merged uClinux

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“Version 3.0 of SnapGear Embedded Linux, based on Linux kernel
2.6, is now available for free download. The latest SnapGear
security-oriented embedded Linux distribution is claimed to be the
‘world’s first production Linux system powered by the 2.6
kernel’–but is also a watershed release in that for the first
time, commercial developers can use a stable Linux kernel
distribution, without patching, to build deeply embedded systems on
devices without a memory management unit (MMU). uClinux patches
were merged into the 2.5.46 release in November, 2002.

“‘The uClinux patches were merged during the 2.5 kernel
development process, due in large part to the work of engineers at
SnapGear,’ noted Andrew Morton, head maintainer of the 2.6 Linux
kernel…”

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