Meet Linux’s little brother: Zephyr, a tiny open-source IoT RTOS

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Rick Lehrbaum
Feb 19, 2016

The Linux Foundation has launched the Zephyr Project, to foster an open source, small footprint, modular, scalable, connected, real-time OS for IoT devices.

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Rick Lehrbaum

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