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Linux as a Real-Time Operating System
White Papers The main handicap to considering Linux as a real-time system is that the kernel is not preemptable; that is, while the processor executes kernel code, no other process or event can preempt kernel execution.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Ateeco Achieves Real-Time Reporting With IBM System i and SAP All-in-One
White Papers IBM Business Partner DSS provided new hardware infrastructure based on the IBM System i 520 platform, using the built-in IBM DB2 database to support the SAP applications. In order to retain margins, companies must find new ways to reduce operating...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Novell plans launch of snap-response Linux
News Novell plans an October launch for its Suse Linux Enterprise Real-Time product, an operating system geared for financial traders and others who watch every microsecond of the clock. But in a move that indicates the flexibility of Linux, Novell...
[September 21, 2006, 8:55]
Linux gains acceptance in mission-critical defence app
News RedHawk Linux is a Posix-compliant, real time version of the open source operating system that is suitable for use in simulation, data capture and systems control environments. In selecting Lockheed Martin for the THAAD programme, the defence...
[November 30, 2005, 15:50]
Red Hat announces real-time additions to Linux
News Open-source specialist Red Hat has launched a "real-time" addition to its Linux operating system, which it claims will make some features run 100 times faster than rival technologies. MRG gives Red Hat's core operating system real-time...
[December 4, 2007, 13:03]
MontaVista reaches hard real-time goal
News The company is working on building "hard real-time" support in Linux, which guarantees that the operating system will respond within a short, fixed amount of time to high-priority interruptions. To meet real-time requirements, an operating system...
[August 2, 2005, 9:30]
Real-time responses for Linux possible, but unwanted
News But the company hasn't been able to bring Linux to a significant part of the embedded market, devices requiring a "hard real time" operating system that can assure a response within a specific and short span of time.
[October 12, 2004, 9:35]
RTLinux patent accused of violating GPL
News One of the features covered by the patent, for example, is the method of running an operating system as a program within another, very simple real-time operating system (RTOS). The Free Software Foundation has condemned FSMLabs, which developed the...
[September 17, 2001, 17:07]
WebPDA: A new handheld contender?
News ISI is freely distributing the hardware/software reference design package to third-parties buying its existing pSOS and RTOS real-time operating system. Analysts have responded positively to news that US software developer Integrated Systems (ISI...
[September 8, 1999, 11:16]
Inside the WebPDA
News REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM The design is built around ISI's existing embedded personal operating system, pSOS+ and its real-time operating system, RTOS, and comes free with either of these systems. Additional system enhancements
[September 8, 1999, 12:30]
Trader Publishing Company: Oracle Database Consolidation Solution Delivers Lower TCO While Increasing CPU and Storage Capacity
White Papers Trader implemented a single Sun Fire 6800 server running the Solaris 8 Operating System. The challenge for Trader Publishing Company was to enhance customer service by enabling real-time database access with 24x7 availability and eliminating...
[October 31, 2004, 0:00]
Neutrino OS is Unix flavour of the month
News The Ontario, Canada-based company was founded 20 years ago as a real-time operating system vendor. QNX (pronounced Cue-nix, rhymes with Unix) makes the embedded microkernel operating system that powers 3Com's new Audrey Net appliance and Netpliance...
[October 20, 2000, 8:32]
Lineo jumps into software-patents fray
News One of the features covered by the patent, for example, is the method of running an operating system as a program within another, very simple real-time operating system (RTOS). Lineo, maker of the Linux-based embedded operating system Embedix, said...
[August 7, 2001, 17:16]
Linux software locks down industrial infrastructure
News Moreover, unlike Honeywell, Siemens and many other companies in the industrial application market, Verano doesn't build its products on top of a special version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, but on a security-enhanced Linux (SELinux...
[June 11, 2003, 7:32]
Windows XP: meet the family review
Reviews Like Windows NT, XP isn't a real-time operating system -- if you need that, you either add it yourself or use a different OS. Microsoft says that most 32-bit code will run 'as-is' in a subsystem in XP 64-Bit, and that most of the features of 32-bit...
[October 30, 2001, 15:20]
Oracle Database 11g on Linux released
News Oracle Real Application Testing helps customers reduce the time, risk and cost of testing database and operating-system upgrades in a controlled and cost-effective manner, said Oracle. While Linux as an RDBMS operating system was still well behind...
[August 15, 2007, 16:07]
Bill Gates: Designing your future
News You have to have real-time plumbing in the operating system. So think of instant messaging, the application, as showing off these real-time APIs (application programming interfaces -- functions that programs can use to make an operating system...
[June 20, 2001, 13:25]
And the data loss goes on...
Blog Comment Many software solutions continue to approach protection against removable media based on USER privileges (policy deployment) when for example usb removable drives are govern by the operating system not user account.
[November 6, 2008, 8:51]
Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog My interest is in ensuring an increase in the global competition in operating system platforms. In short, the best thing that the EU regulators can do to increase competition in the computer platform market is to ensure that consumers are offered a...
[June 15, 2009, 9:24]
Apple harbours high hopes for iMac
News Apple believes the combination of new iMac and iBook computers, along with recent refinements to the new Mac OS X operating system and new software, will keep the company competitive even as the big PC makers are slashing prices and making massive...
[January 10, 2002, 16:31]
