Electronic Engineering Times reports that Lynx Real Time Systems is jumping into the real time Linux market. According to EE Times editor Bernard Cole, “Building on its experience with the POSIX operating system, Lynx has developed BlueCat Linux, a version of Linux that's been optimized for embedded applications.” According to a Lynx spokesperson, the company will begin shipping BlueCat as an open source… product by January.

“Bill Hogan, president and chief executive officer of Lynx, said the move to support Linux is 'perfectly logical' for his company, given its 12-year history of support for industry standards such as POSIX. But rather than develop a totally new version of Linux, BlueCat will be based on Red Hat Version 6.1, containing the Linux 2.2.5-15 kernel. The difference will be in Lynx's open development environment, which developers will be able to use to create variations of the embedded Linux operating system according their particular requirements,” continues Cole.

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