CHICAGO, ILL. — The trend toward real-time embedded Linux got a boost last week, as aircraft engine-builder Pratt & Whitney revealed that it used a Linux-based software kernel to test its new F135 ...

As is so often the case, a notable change in an upcoming Linux kernel is both historic and no big deal. What does this mean for desktop Linux? Not much. Beyond high-end audio production or replication ...

What just happened? Linux has long been the versatile open-source workhorse behind everything from web servers to Android phones. A significant milestone now enables the penguin mascot to showcase its ...

An RTOS is a specialized operating system designed to handle time-critical tasks with precision and reliability. Unlike general-purpose operating systems like Windows or macOS, an RTOS is built to ...

Real-time processing capabilities are now included in the main release of the Linux kernel, allowing developers to implement embedded Linux systems more easily. The move could also lead to more stable ...

Canonical said PREEMP_RT makes the kernel more preemptive than mainline Linux. Real-time Ubuntu is intended to offer performance, low latency, and security for telco infrastructure, with the kernel ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Embedded developers have long maintained real-time patch sets outside the mainline Linux kernel, but those days may be coming to an end, according to representatives of Linux ...

NEW YORK—More than half of the 1.2 million lines of code for the real-time kernel technology have been moved into the mainline Linux kernel over the past year, Tim Burke, the director of emerging ...

What I was taught is that hard real time has a bounded response time: we are always able to respond to an event in less than some specified time T. It doesn't mean fast, just that there is a hard ...