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Red Hat Dissolves eCos Team, Changes Embedded Strategy

Posted by chrisd on from the red-hat-goes-well-with-orange-socks dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "This article at LinuxDevices.com, which includes an Interview with Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann, probes Red Hat's dissolution of its eCos project team and the reasoning behind Red Hat's newly adjusted embedded linux strategy. Tiemann says his company is still in the embedded business, but considers embedded to be an aspect of a broader 'platform OS' strategy."

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  1. Re:I think this is a good move for redhat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi.

    I work with embedded OS and hardware, so I can tell from your niave statments that you don't.

    Size, power consumption, etc dictate components, and upgrading from 100k to 2 meg of memory just isn't possible most of the time. Since linux is a memory hog (compared to other embedded OSes), and has poor latency, it's not a viable option.

    Since the minix license has changed, that's one of the most popular "free" OSes available. And it doesn't have the legal entaglements linux has.

    I like linux - we use it for our web, mail, and samba servers. But we don't use it for embedded devices.