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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)
Appears to be written like an advertisment...
Nothing to see here.
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.
I could have sworn this was the paid advertisement.
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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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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.
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
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.
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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