SD Times: eCos 2.0 Breaks Out of Red Hat Red Tape

“Free of the shackles imposed by Red Hat Inc., maintainers of
the open-source eCos real-time operating system said in mid-March
that version 2.0, now in beta, could be generally available around
April 15. The new version will add an all-new bootloader with
remote debugging and full POSIX compliance, giving it the ability
to run many Linux and Unix applications with just a recompile.

“‘This was the best possible move for the future of eCos: to get
out from under Red Hat and become truly open and not controlled by
a commercial company with commercial interests,’ said former Red
Hat employee Alex Schuilenburg, now CEO of eCosCentric Ltd., the
company he formed with three other of the six original eCos
developers.

“Schuilenburg credited significant increases in target support
of eCos 2.0 to that freedom. ‘[Under Red Hat,] any kind of public
release had to be customer-driven. Now that
we’re no longer part of Red Hat, we have a lot
more freedom to do things.’ One of those things, he said, is to
port eCos to many new development platforms and boards. ‘We plan to
conquer the world by making eCos as pervasive as possible.’ General
release should come within the month, he said…”

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