Lineo has issued a formal statement in response to MontaVista Software's recent press release entitled “MontaVista First to Deliver Hard Real-Time Linux.” In the Lineo response, the company challenges several assumptions of the MontaVista announcement [story]. Here is the text of the Lineo statement . . .

Subject: Lineo Response to Hard Real-Time Claims By Competitor

You may have noticed a recent announcement by one of Lineo's competitors claiming they were the “first to deliver hard real-time Linux.” We at Lineo take issue with this claim given the following facts:

1. Through our acquisition and integration of Zentropix [story], Lineo has been delivering hard real-time Linux for more than a year now. We have real customers using our hard real-time solutions today in the areas of flight simulation, weather monitoring systems, heart monitoring systems, industrial controls, and many others.

2. The Lineo real-time solution achieves guaranteed hard real-time microsecond response times today. This is very different from the “relatively fully preemptable kernel,” announced by this competitor. [story]

3. This competitor isn't “delivering” anything today. Their current product is in prototype form and they don't have intentions to deliver their final product until January of next year at the earliest.

4. Lineo continues to actively support and promote real-time technologies. For more information about Lineo's real-time technologies, please visit this website.

5. Lineo also makes hard real-time available from our open source website. Users can download a full-version of RTAI (real-time application interface) [story] and AtomicRTAI [story] from this site.

6. At LinuxWorld in San Jose this year, Lineo announced it would integrate real-time technology into the Embedix SDK [story], which Lineo will ship in Q4 of this year.

Related stories:
MontaVista unveils fully preemptable Linux kernel prototype
RTAI: Real-Time Application Interface
DIAPM-RTAI Hard Real Time Support for Linux
Lineo releases 1-floppy real-time Linux mini-distro

 
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