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Learning About Enea's Real Time Linux Embedded OS (Video)

Jon Aldama is the Product Marketing Manager for Enea A.B., but he prides himself on being a developer first and a marketer second -- a point he stresses early in today's video. Enea is behind Operating System Embedded, whose Wikipedia page, some say, "appears to be written like an advertisement," which an unkind person could also say about the Enea A.B. Wikipedia page. In any case, Enea works with the Linux Foundation's Yocto Project workgroup, whose main webpage says, "It's not an embedded Linux distribution – it creates a custom one for you." This is all open source, which Jon says is a big corporate principle at Enea -- and he should know, since his previous job was as an Open Source Compliance Officer and Software Analyst at Ericsson. (Alternate Video Link)

27 comments

  1. Commercial alternatives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A largely unjustified premiun is placed on the term "open source". Open source has mvoed from an academic fascination to an overemphasized paradigm. If only the benefits of commercial software were as emphasized!

    1. Re:Commercial alternatives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why should we do it for you?

      It's up to shills like you to emphasize these supposed benefits.

      If there are any, your post failed to mention them.

    2. Re:Commercial alternatives by Chrisq · · Score: 1

      Why should we do it for you?

      It's up to shills like you to emphasize these supposed benefits.

      If there are any, your post failed to mention them.

      There are plenty of benefits - to the NSA, to businesses that lock people in, etc.

    3. Re:Commercial alternatives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why should we do it for you?

      It's up to shills like you to emphasize these supposed benefits.

      If there are any, your post failed to mention them.

      Nor have open source defendants been able to point clear benefits of OSS. Ok, it's cool that anyone can read the source and make modifications. However, in practice open source just equates to garbage quality software full of bugs and it is lacking enough developer resources. It just leads to a desperate life of constantly creating some tweak workarounds or submitting bug reports.

    4. Re: Commercial alternatives by fractoid · · Score: 1

      How about benefits to people who actually create innovative solutions to real commercial problems instead of Yet Another Ripoff Of Software I Don't Want To Pay For?

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  2. wtf... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What the fuck is the summary trying to say?

    I wonder how much Enea paid to get this badly written advertisement.

    1. Re:wtf... by Chrisq · · Score: 1

      What the fuck is the summary trying to say?

      I wonder how much Enea paid to get this badly written advertisement.

      I think a slashdot article is probably worth about a quarter of a Wikipedia page

  3. This article summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Appears to be written like an advertisment...

    1. Re:This article summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Some say it was written more like someone taking Wikipedia's NPOV a bit too far.

    2. Re:This article summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The summary is atrocious. And I don't give a fuck who or what Jon Aldama says he is. I've never heard of him.

  4. Slashvertising by nctritech · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nothing to see here.

    1. Re:Slashvertising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be fair, a good project pitch sounds exactly like an advertisement, because it is one. Only berate the "article" for lying.

    2. Re:Slashvertising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yet you keep coming back here regardless. Even though you're perfectly aware of what this site is, even though you think there's "nothing to see here," you still keep coming back.

      Maybe you're the one with the fucking problem.

    3. Re:Slashvertising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you must be one of the indians at Enea that are proud of their own thing.
      no need for this kind of words on this page, go rage at Enea you fool

    4. Re:Slashvertising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yet you keep coming back here regardless. Even though you're perfectly aware of what this site is, even though you think there's "nothing to see here," you still keep coming back.

      He's like a mama watching some soap opera from TV, constantly mocking how bad the show and its characters are. But dare you to change the channel...

  5. I haven't been to a site that uses left by future+assassin · · Score: 0

    sided navigation for ages. That was a weird experience https://www.yoctoproject.org/

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  6. rebranding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    credits to openembedded?
    its all about marketing? everyone tries to make a new brand... its a nightmare... its like reinventing the wheel again ...

  7. Realtime by qpqp · · Score: 2

    What kind of realtime is this? Soft, hard, imaginary, wannabe? Sorry, can't be bothered to watch a 10 minute video to find that out and this should be specified, when talking about realtime systems.

    1. Re:Realtime by Shark · · Score: 1

      Wiki says deterministic so I imagine it's more on the 'hard' side.

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  8. Well that's funny. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I could have sworn this was the paid advertisement.

    Slashdot; news for suckers, stuff that isn't worth buying.

    1. Re:Well that's funny. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm pretty happy with http://www.nuttx.org/
      My stuff do not interact directly with humans, like most ROTSes applications.

  9. Re:Obama is a Traitor by Earthquake+Retrofit · · Score: 1

    Going by the first line, I have to hope you're being sarcastic. Sadly, I hear people saying (and believing) such things nearly every day.

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  10. who's this Enea ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hey guys look we need customers, but where does every customer lives ? On the /. of course ...

    I really dont get this kind of articles here, is it a commercial webpage, come on guys dont start with the same things others did already and lost the best audition....

    Not cool !

  11. Realtime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Enea payed them to write this """""article"""" but not so much hence the lack of textual details.... Enea looks cheap to me now

  12. Added value over, say, ubuntu? by drewm19801927 · · Score: 1

    What is the advantage of this over using, say, one of the realtime ARM kernels floating around on the net, with a ubuntu userspace? In our application we have had pretty good experiences treating our beaglebone blacks like any other linux machine, with only the installation (via sd card instead of usb key) and the device overlay tree stuff being hardware specific. We regularly ssh in, run vim to edit files, recompile... Is the idea that it is capable of scaling down even smaller than debian can, for boards that are less powerful than a beaglebone? I tried out the "smart" package manager they use on my ubuntu laptop, and it seemed slow, and seemed like it did not import the existing package selections; "smart upgrade" offered to delete practically everything on my system including stuff like vim.

  13. Re:Obama is a Traitor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He is your fucking dictator you god damned puke traitor motherfucking piece of shit.

    People like you are banned from life and business. We will not do business with you. We will not pay you and we will seek to expose your self destructive, seditious treasonous lying type now. You have become the enemy within.

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