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ELC Releases Embedded Linux Standard v1.0

Posted by michael on from the nice-and-hefty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) formally announced its release of the ELC Platform Specification (ELCPS) version 1.0 this week. This LinuxDevices.com Special Report includes the full text of the ELC's announcement, a whitepaper about the ELCPS standard, a newly updated "frequently asked questions" document, a roundup of news coverage, a poll, a discussion thread, and the spec itself."

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  1. Re:A chance to compete in an emerging market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I may be incorrect(hence me posting under anonymous coward :) ), but I have read on the distribution list at www.linux.org that there is a real-time version of Linux that NASA uses. Beat me with a stick if I'm wrong.

  2. RTLinux--exactly! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You are quite right; RTLinux is exactly one of the systems that I mean. It is a hard real time OS that runs Linux as a low priority thread and provides "fast and easy" communication between real time threads and Linux threads.

    I'm sure you can see why that is a bad solution. You add complexity, and make a second class Linux citizen just so that you can claim it is there. As far as using it goes, it is just a horrible nuisance.