Embedded OS RTEMS Turns 21

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Posted by timothy on Thursday December 31, 2009 @06:31AM from the toiling-in-the-background dept.

joelsherrill writes "RTEMS is a free real-time operating system for embedded systems. The project is celebrating the 21st birthday of RTEMS today. RTEMS supports the single process with filesystem POSIX profile on over a dozen processor architectures. To just be entering young adulthood, RTEMS has had a busy life. It has been a Google Summer of Code project twice (Thanks Google!). It has been to Venus on the Venus Express, circles Mars on the Electra radio, powers Herschel and Planck, is on its way to the asteroid belt aboard DAWN, and has been a key part of physics discoveries at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center."

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I, by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-31 06:37 · Score: 1, Funny

for one, welcome our real-time operating system legally allowed to drink beer overlord
1. Re:I, by girlintraining · 2009-12-31 07:31 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You laugh, but there's no other signifigance to "21 years". This would have been better celebrated LAST year.
  Why? It's an important time in a young operating system's life -- Throw some 0xDEADBEEF on the registers and bring the free beer, it's party time! Derive safely, RTEMS, and don't BSOD or have unsafe hex while you're out.
  
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2. Re:I, by An+ominous+Cow+art · 2009-12-31 07:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  RTEMS is Open Source, not Opun Source.
3. Re:I, by girlintraining · 2009-12-31 07:49 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  RTEMS is Open Source, not Opun Source.
  If it's open sores, it's because it practiced unsafe hex. Now it'll have to suck down antivirus for the rest of its life because it made a stupid mistake when it was young.
  
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lifetime achievement award by girlintraining · 2009-12-31 07:02 · Score: 1, Funny

"It has been to Venus on the Venus Express, circles Mars on the Electra radio, powers Herschel and Planck, is on its way to the asteroid belt aboard DAWN, and has been a key part of physics discoveries at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center."
Well, I've been to Venus on the Venus express too, I've circled Mars (but never landed), I've powered her bell and spank, been on my way to a steroid belt aboard Dawn, and I've been a key part of clinic discoveries too. Where's my f**king parade? //Says the gay girl.

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Re:What if they threw a birthday party... by larry+bagina · 2009-12-31 07:39 · Score: 3, Funny

Hey timothy, in the future please ask anonymous coward if he's heard of something before you post it. He gets very confused when he hears about something he's never heard of before.

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Re:Brace yourself... by gura · 2009-12-31 08:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Last I saw it had everything but a decent text editor.
Re:Brace yourself... by nuckfuts · 2009-12-31 08:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Thanks for the comparison.