Wind River Partners With Red Hat On Embedded Linux

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Wind River Partners With Red Hat On Embedded Linux

Posted by simoniker on Monday February 23, 2004 @11:22AM from the embed-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices: 'Calling embedded Linux and VxWorks 'the standards in device software development,' Wind River today announced a dual operating system strategy that adds a newly developed embedded Linux distribution -- Red Hat Embedded Linux -- alongside its proprietary VxWorks real-time operating system.'"

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Oooh . . . does that mean we get Linux on Mars? by PIPBoy3000 · 2004-02-23 11:28 · Score: 3, Funny

I suspect that Linux's file system is a bit more robust than what they used on the rovers.
Re:Business plan du jour by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 11:30 · Score: 1, Funny

The real problem is rooting out the fads. Remember synergy, consumer centricity,

I once asked our vp marketing about that. He full agreed and said that it's really about exploiting leading-edge methodologies, harnessing cutting-edge paradigms and matrixing world-class web services.
Re:Backwards compatible? by normal_guy · 2004-02-23 11:38 · Score: 2, Funny

Do you even know what you're talking about? Wind River and Red Hat are both software companies. The Ergo Audrey was made my 3Com a number of years ago and was very quickly discontinued.

No, that's why I asked a question. I thought that perhaps the Audrey hardware runs some kind of software.

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Flaming over Windows? by Faust7 · 2004-02-23 11:55 · Score: 2, Funny

And "everyone else" is running Windows on their x86 hardware, and we all know how sterling an example of quality engineering either of those things are... (no flames, please)

Dude, look around. You see any flames coming your way here?

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Re:"The Standards" by Otter · 2004-02-23 11:56 · Score: 3, Funny

In the 1800s, "The Standard" way of life for a wealthy white Southerner in the US would include the ownership of slaves. And "The Standard" in industrialised Western nations was, of course, for women (and blacks) to not have the right to vote.
Errr, isn't comparing vxWorks to slavery a little bit over the top?

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Re:"The Standards" by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 12:13 · Score: 2, Funny

No you fucktard, your boss is making sure that what the company is doing isn't so unique that it puts an unnecessary dependency on the IT staff. The standard is usually cheaper to support and ensures that the company can replace an unruly asshole like you when needed.
Suspicious... by fltsimbuff · 2004-02-23 12:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Anyone else wonder if this might have something to do with the problems with the Spirit rover that just happened to be running a VxWare OS? Maybe the next rover will be running Red Hat Embedded Linux... Maybe they should make a multi-booting rover. Win2k, a few flavors of Linux, and *BSD. They could boot into Windows to play solitaire on the rover during slow research days. The next rover should also have a nice speaker system on it, and should be able to stream MP3's from NASA to play... To keep the Aliens away from it like in Mars Attacks!... Would hate for it to get stolen and turned into a Little martion child's RC car like Solourner...
Re:What does that mean to VxWorks? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 21:37 · Score: 2, Funny

That's exactly why I don't use linux. Because until Open source movement gets something as widely used as the GCC compiler, it's just not worth my time to mess around with that stuff.