Embedded Linux is taking off
Red Hat and Embedded Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) Vendor WIND RIVER SYSTEMS recently announced an agreement, according to this agreement, Wind River will transplant Red Hat into a platform for small devices, this protocol is embedded Waves in the Tinux market. Still recently, competitive embedded Linux vendors Montavista Software announced the launch of new consumer electronics embedded Linux and a development environment for equipment providers. Based on the protocol of Red Hat and Wind River, the technical staff of the two companies will cooperate to transplant the Red Hat code into embedded computers and network products, such as industrial equipment, handheld devices, and data network devices. This cooperation is that Red Hat has entered the embedded market by the acquisition of embedded Linux development tool manufacturer Cygnus Solutions in 1999. By working with Wind River, Red Hat has won a powerful allies in the embedded RTOS market. As an RTOS vendor with 23 years, Wind River has a system running on a variety of devices, up to the courageous Mars, and under the safe air in the car. However, this cooperation also proves that Wind River has seen ominous megabytes, which proves that embedded system manufacturers need to open source software. Although VxWorks - Wind River's main RTOS products have been a standard for the industry for many years, but automotive computer systems, telecommunications equipment and vending machines and other equipment manufacturers are realizing: Linux for licenses and development agencies. They choose a better platform. In order not to be covered by the winds of Red Hat and Wind River, Montavista also announced its consumer electronic version of the operating system version 3.1. This Linux-based Linux
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The kernel's software will run on the embedded device processor produced by Texas Instruments, Intel, Renesas, Motorola, and ITE. Improvements in this new software include better power management capabilities and the ability to load the operating system directly from the flash memory. The new software also adds a new file structure called "Protection RAM File System" (PRAMFS) to improve the protection of data in flash. Montavista said its software complies with the "Consumer Electronics LINUX Forum" is being developed, this forum is a technical association for developing embedded Linux standards for small consumer electronics products. The operating system consumer electronic version 3.1 also includes devrocket 1.0. Devrocket 1.0 is the development environment written in applications running on Montavista-driven consumer devices. The software also includes Linux, Windows and Solaris development, debug platforms, and consumer electronic software libraries, event logs. Montavista has always been in a strong development of embedded Linux markets, especially small electronic equipment manufacturers such as PDA, smart phone and mobile phones. The company's recent report shows that its annual revenue increased by 77%, it also claimed to grow in 15 consecutive quarters, and 500 new customers have been added last year. Montavista will compete with Red Hat and Wind River in the same embedded real-time operating system market, although its strength is embedded in industrial and telecommunications, but Montavista has recently strengthened the attention of consumer electronics markets, for example, it recently with Motorola Cooperate to develop a new smart phone. (US "NetWork World" is available from this newspaper)
