Following completion of the first Linux in Control Workshop held recently in Leuven, Belgium, Control Solutions Magazine interviewed Peter Wurmsdobler, one of the workshop's organizers, to explore the current state and future expectations for Linux in the control industry. Topics covered include: whether the meeting was successful; why many Linux real-time control efforts are relatively invisible to the control community; why there is a perception in the control community that proprietary software is professional, but free software is not, and how that can be changed; whether the different ways of accomplishing real-time under Linux are being (or can be) solidified in a common API; whether we will see a Linux PLC any time soon; whether Linux in control might steal away applications from proprietary RTOS suppliers and Microsoft Win CE; and what, in general, is the future of Linux in Control.

Read full story

 
This article was originally published on LinuxDevices.com and has been donated to the open source community by QuinStreet Inc. Please visit LinuxToday.com for up-to-date news and articles about Linux and open source.