Sysgo ELinOS v2.2 was selected as the top embedded Linux development system for 2003 by readers of the German magazine Elektronik in an annual reader survey. Sysgo claims that ELinOS is the “best selling” embedded Linux development environment in Europe.

Elektronik Magazine editors pre-selected 111 products in 10 categories for its annual reader survey, which was completed by more than 1,000 readers competing for raffle prizes. Elektronik is a technical trade publication serving the computer and electronics industry.

According to Sysgo, ELinOS is “used in more than 1,000 applications in the aerospace and defence, automotive, industrial automation, medical technology, and telecom industries,” making it the best selling embedded Linux distribution in Europe.

In LinuxDevices.com's most recent annual Market Survey, ELinOS ranked fifth among embedded-specific Linux distributions just behind the free German embedded Linux toolkit from Denx.

ELinOS v2.2 is a full featured embedded development environment, according to Sysgo, with GNU compiler, cross toolchain, graphical debugger, graphical kernel configuration, and all components needed for the reduced hardware resources of embedded systems. It includes the opensource Rolo x86 bootloader. An English version of ELinOS was added with the 2.0 release.

Sysgo is currently preparing version 3.0 of ELinOS, with new features that include an updated kernel (v2.6 for x86 only, otherwise v2.4.24), Eclipse-based IDE, GNU toolchain based on gcc 3.2, custom board porting kit, carrier grade features, Java integration, LTT System browser, and more.

 
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