LinuxPR: MontaVista Software Offers “One Hundred Percent Pure Linux” With Real-Time Performance

“Streamlines Standard Linux Kernel and Partners with FSMLabs
for RTLinux(TM).“

“MontaVista Software Inc., developer of the Hard
Hat^TM Linux® operating system for embedded
applications, today announces its plans to offer an array of
real-time performance options for the company’s embedded Linux
distribution. To address the range of requirements for real-time
responsiveness and determinism, MontaVista will enhance the already
good performance of the standard Linux kernel for more predictable
“soft” real-time response and will partner with real-time Linux
leader FSMLabs to offer an RTLinux^TM accelerator for
“hard” real-time applications.”

“Building upon a “one hundred percent pure Linux” base,
MontaVista is characterizing driver-level and user process response
characteristics in the Linux kernel and engineering a range of
improvements to enable guaranteed single-millisecond response
times. All such enhancements will be released back to the open
source community under the Gnu Public License. “Linux is an
excellent base for servers and desktops, but cannot deliver
response guarantees required for streaming media and other
latency-sensitive devices,” states Kevin Morgan, MontaVista vice
president of engineering. “MontaVista, with literally hundreds of
years of experience in real-time operating and control system
design and implementation, can meet this real-time challenge and
provide dramatic improvements in native Linux responsiveness.”

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