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TRON + Linux = "T-Linux"
An anonymous reader writes "The T-Engine Forum and MontaVista Software announced today that they are collaborating to combine the long-dominant Japanese embedded operating system, TRON ("The Real-time Operating system Nucleus"), with embedded Linux, in the hopes of creating a standardized software architecture for embedded devices that takes advantage of open source software and the benefits of Linux."
Aslong as we can use those light cycles I will be glad to use it.
the MCP jokes coming already.
not trolling, but a genuine question: advantage of open source I can understand - what benefit does linux bring to the embedded world, if they already have the core OS?
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I was really hoping this had something to do with lightcycles and recognizers.
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Personally, I think that if we have a 'tron' linux that somewhere they better make something named 'MCP'. Maybe root should be replaced with the loggin MCP.... heheheh...
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I'm pretty sure Tron + Linux = "Li'l nuts"
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Seriously, what is it with people completely bending the rules of acronyms just to make something sound cute/cool. "The Real-time Operating system Nucleus" should be called "TROSN"
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Japan - TRON Linux was announced and promptly sued into a smoking crater in the ground by Disney today. Disney representatives stated they were merely protecting their valuable intellectual property and that Linux is only used by thieves, anyways. MSFT rose 4 points.
Linux kernel renamed "Master Control Program".
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Damnit, when I saw the headline I was thinking I'd finally get some cool 3D interface with zippy blue lights and neat sound FX!
I'm soooo disappointed. Now I don't even get a angry-spooky-face-in-a-spinning-thing when the kernel panics.
Blockwars: a realtime, multiplayer game similar to Tetris.
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
Do you realize how many outside systems I've gone into? How many programs I've appropriated?
Just thought that was appropriate =)
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I don't see that as necessary. The validity of the patent seems very much in question to many people. I can't think of anybody better to test the validity of the patent than a large association of Japanese real-time companies.
> TRON + Linux = "T-Linux"
Surely it should be T-GNU/Linux.
> creating a standardized software architecture
> for embedded devices that takes (sic) advantage
> of open source software and the benefits of
> Linux (sic)
Imagine a baerwolf cluster of those!
Believe with me, my saplings.
"in the hopes of creating a standardized software architecture for embedded devices that takes advantage of open source software and the benefits of Linux."
Um...I'm failing to see something here. What could possibly come out of this that's more standard than *nix? It seems that they are just trying to piggyback their core in on top of a current "standard..."
And, just to beat the horse even further to death, !
-Amalcon
Mentor, the makers of the real time operating system "Nucleus" (tm), would appear to have reasonable grounds for confusion with a product in the same market place "The Real Time Operating system Nucleus Linux" aka TRON-Linux.
http://www.mentor.com/nucleus/
Sure you can argue Nucleus is a general term, but I doubt that argument holds much weight when both names are used in the same market. Heck, these two are even in the same tiny corner of the computer word (realtime operating systems).
Of course, IANAL, much less a trademark specialist. Anyone more educated on the topic care to comment?
-Matt
In related news a flurry of lawsuits were recently filed:
The first was filed by Disney, because they OWN TRON.
The second was filed by SCO, because they OWN Unix, and this whole TRON thing might somehow cut into their profits.
The third was also filed by SCO. It was a billion dollar lawsuit against Disney. SCO also threatened to pull Disney's TRON license, which could prevent Disney from using bits, light cycles, or recognizers, or strange old men rotating in I/O towers at any future time.
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...Disney sues them for violating their "Tron" trademark. Come to think of it, one of these days I should get around to trademarking every possible 3- letter acronym that isn't already taken. I could extort gazillions of $$$ out of honest companies with that kind of IP-squatting.
Repeal the DMCA!
Silly question, perhaps...the news last month from Japan explained that the manufs. there are simply looking to be MS free. And since they've recognized that their own efforts have failed, while Linux is growing, they've bitten the bullet and moved on.
Of course there are other reasons, but how much more of a reason should they need.
Besides, it's just a start. Once you have such a moidel in place, other open source OSs would be just as welcome. You just have to start as simply as possible. Right?
I was reading about TRON in Byte Magazine in the mid-1980's. This almost certainly pre-dates anything Mentor has done, much less registered.
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Don't you mean GNU/T-Linux... and on RMS's birthday, for shame!
What's cool about TRON is the TRON code character encoding format, which supports all Unicode characters and more. By switching between different character set planes (like ISO 2022 does), they do away with pesky Unicode surrogate pairs, which not even Windows 2000 supports.
Mentor, the makers of the real time operating system "Nucleus" (tm), would appear to have reasonable grounds for confusion with a product in the same market place "The Real Time Operating system Nucleus Linux" aka TRON-Linux.
TRON is a system that dates back at least to the early 80s. Nucleus - their website is obviously targeted for marketing droids - probably postdates it, making a trademark infringement suit pointless and possibly dangerous.
Also, Nucleus has little grounds for a trademark infringement suit with TRON - the N could be changed, as the system is always called TRON.
The TRON project was started in 1984*, meaning they've been using the name for 15 years. If Nucleus wanted to press a claim, they would lose and possibly be countersued for trademark infringement, or just have the trademark lost as a generic term.
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http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/projecthistory.
Yes, the Japanese are known for their fanatical devotion to watching non-animated American Disney movies in English.
I bet EVERY geek over in Japan knows about the movie Tron, considering that all geeks are culturally exactly the same everywhere.
This reminds me of the time I won $5 from a guy because he didn't believe me that "TRON" was short for "TRace ON"- (and the TROFF , well duh)~
Was the same guy who didn't understand why I kept calling ! "bang" >:)
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All that I see RTLinux doing is acting as a microkernel that can switch between OS personalities. It just so happens that they lost their way and created a whole real-time OS instead of setting it up as a personality over the microkernel.
The other way of looking at the RTLinux patent is that they've patented the idea of running a VM hosted OS under a real-time system. Again, that just doesn't make sense as an enforceable patent or you could start patenting any specific combination of host and guest systems.
Maybe there is something buried in the patent that I didn't understand, but to me it just seems like patenting a specific case of the obvious. Then again, I thought (and still think) that patents like Amazon's one-click were asinine and unenforceable, yet no one's managed to knock the stupid thing down yet.
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Fair enough, I obviously didn't do my homework on the TRON half of TRON-Linux, and assumed it was a newer project.
Thanks to all who provided answers and insight.
-Matt
"Nucleus" has been around for a rather long time, usually used to indicate the center or core of something (analagous to the nucleus of a cell.)
Even more damning for any attempt by Mentor to enforce any copyright claims is the fact that terms like "nucleus" and "core" have been used in operating systems textbooks and papers since the seventies.
TRON also only uses the word as part of an acronym, not as part of a trademark.
The biggest issue would be (as others have pointed out) that TRON existed long before Mentor's Nucleus RTOS.
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Looking over the article is says that TRON supports SH, MR, ARM, and MIPS. These I can understand and am happy with the idea. Now I'm not trolling but would there be any benefit or using linux's x86 code and running embedded systems on Intel/AMD or are they to big/hot/complicated/etc to be of any use in embedded systems?
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Blasphemy! How dare you take the good TRON's name in vain!
- IP
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For those who don't know them, about every product as a T prefixed: T-Mobile, T-Net, T-Systems, T-Online... and now T-LInux)
No, No, not even close...
Mullah Noah, and that whole Great Flood thing...
Come on... even assuming a world population of only, say 10,000 that would mean an extinction on the scale of 99.99% at least, and that's just the humans, nevermind the animals.
(I always wondered though, did they have to load up 2 dolphins, as well, or was it just the land animals that had to pay for man's evil?)
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Ain't my war. I'm Canadian. Blame me.
..If you read and believe in the Bible, that's quite wrong.
Cain was not a terrorist. His goal was not terror, nor was it to overthrow a government, or liberate any supposedly oppressed people, yadda yadda. (Note: AFAICT, there was no government at that time.)
Cain was a murderer, plain and simple. His goal was to off Abel. Which he did with great gusto.
If you want a real Biblical terrorist, look at the rest of the Old Testament. God's probably the top-rated terrorist - the Great Flood and the Angel of Death and plagues in Egypt spring immediately to mind.
I'm unsure as to whether the Israelites can be considered terrorists. Sure, they slaughtered men and took the heathen women that were foolishly living in 'their' 'holy land', but then, their actions are more reminiscent of military conquest.
A brutal, bloody conquest, but a conquest none-the-less.
And now for something completely different: If you pray to God, you're supporting terrorism!
...seeing as it's already the standard TRON for the desktop and actually has unique TRON-style features (i.e. the universal character set).
Bolting TRON and Linux together does not seem to offer any particular advantages to the world as a whole, although it might be an advantage to TRON.
Use BTRON today! Documentation probably Japanese only but still in many ways easier to read than GNU Info.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
He is talking about QNX, a real time operating system from europe.
"Holy instant noodle"
"TRON - fighting for the users."
I always wanted Bruce Boxleitner inside my machine ... but then with a certain Bruce Boxleitner character's penchant for nuclear weapons, does my machine become a weapon of mass destruction?
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This is soooooo lame. Forgive me, but I have about 70 years on this planet. I didn't START this war, i didn't attack any NCY-buildings and I def don't intend to. My personal believe is that the slashdot crowd (and Opensource folk in general) are open minded and world-aware people with a FOCUS on Computers and Electronics. So why don't you just let us do what we live for and continue with whatever meaningful you have been doing. I BET every Slashdotter has an opinion about the current situation but they don't discuss it on Slashdot since it's just not the right place. FYI I'm german and I get flamed pretty often, lately, so I come here to relax...
take care and get well soon,
Lispy
And what exactly does this has to do with embedded systems?