Jonathan Corbet writes in Linux Weekly News . . .

“Lynx has been in the embedded systems business for ten years. For most of that time, Lynx's product line has been centered around the “LynxOS” kernel — a POSIX-compatible, deterministic, hard real-time system. Surrounding the kernel has been the usual array of GNU tools and such. LynxOS has been a successful product for them, but Lynx has also not been unaware of the rise of Linux, and Linux's potential in embedded systems.”

“So Lynx is introducing “Blue Cat Linux” this week at LinuxWorld. Blue Cat is yet another distribution, oriented toward embedded tasks. It's fully GPL, and thus can be used royalty-free in embedded applications. LynxOS remains as a separate product, proprietary, which is aimed at the harder real time tasks.”

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