O'Reilly editor Andy Oram offers his perspective on ADEOS in this online article at the O'Reilly Network . . .

“Embedded systems are widely seen as the greatest area of opportunity for Linux (and the more broadly one defines the term 'embedded system', the more appropriate it seems for Linux). Furthermore, real-time performance is a make-or-break requirement for many embedded systems. So there's good reason for anyone interested in Open Source or free software to care about the state of real-time on Linux . . . “

” . . . developers now have a choice. RTAI is going to use the new ADEOS in order to be free of the RTLinux patent. The next couple years will show whether ADEOS makes a difference . . . “

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