CNET editor Stephen Shankland reports that Red Hat has discontinued development of its eCos open source embedded operating system, laying off the U.K. based eCos development team. Shankland writes . . .

“. . . Red Hat has had its own hitches bringing out new operating systems. A company it acquired in 1999, Cygnus Solutions, had been working on an open-source operating system called eCos, which could run on electronic devices that have very little memory, such as Brother laser printers.”

“Red Hat said Tuesday that the seven to nine eCos programmers, based in Cambridge, England, have been laid off, and the effort has been canceled.”

” 'That area is something we have moved on from,' [Red Hat Chief Operating Officer] Buckley said, though the company will support existing customers.”

“Red Hat had hoped for years that eCos and Linux would live side by side, with Linux being used in higher-powered 'embedded' computing devices, such as handheld computers, network routers or special-purpose file servers. . .”

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