FYI: Nutxx - BSD licensed RTOS

[Marco]

Open source BSD licensed RTOS

see
http://nuttx.sourceforge.net/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nuttx/

[42Bastian Schick]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:42:02 -0800 (PST), Marco
<prenom...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Open source BSD licensed RTOS

Finally a new RTOS. Great, we all have been waiting for a free RTOS
for soooooo long.

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[David Brown]

42Bastian Schick wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:42:02 -0800 (PST), Marco
> <prenom...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Open source BSD licensed RTOS
>
> Finally a new RTOS. Great, we all have been waiting for a free RTOS
> for soooooo long.
>

Did you bother to look at the site, or is this just a knee-jerk
reaction? Yes, Nutxx is another free RTOS - but there is space for a
selection of RTOS's in this world, both free and non-free. There are a
great many people using free OS's of various sorts and various sizes.
This one seems to be "bigger" than FreeRTOS, but "smaller" than ecos -
I'm sure there are people here who will look at it with interest.

[42Bastian Schick]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:34:35 +0100, David Brown
<da...@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote:

>42Bastian Schick wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:42:02 -0800 (PST), Marco
>> <prenom...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Open source BSD licensed RTOS
>>
>> Finally a new RTOS. Great, we all have been waiting for a free RTOS
>> for soooooo long.
>>
>
>Did you bother to look at the site, or is this just a

I even did download it :-)

>knee-jerk reaction?

In a way, yes :-)

> Yes, Nutxx is another free RTOS - but there is space for a

I've seen, it is actually quiet "old" (already version 5).

>selection of RTOS's in this world, both free and non-free. There are a
>great many people using free OS's of various sorts and various sizes.

Sure. But I just wonder why again and again new RTOS's appear, and all
repeat the same philosophy (shared memory, semaphores).

>This one seems to be "bigger" than FreeRTOS, but "smaller" than ecos -
>I'm sure there are people here who will look at it with interest.

Despite many others that now and then appear NuttX seems pretty
complete in what it offers.

[David Brown]

42Bastian Schick wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:34:35 +0100, David Brown
> <da...@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote:
>
>> 42Bastian Schick wrote:
>>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:42:02 -0800 (PST), Marco
>>> <prenom...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Open source BSD licensed RTOS
>>> Finally a new RTOS. Great, we all have been waiting for a free RTOS
>>> for soooooo long.
>>>
>> Did you bother to look at the site, or is this just a
>
> I even did download it :-)
>

You've got further than me - I only got as far as reading some of the
website. But I have made a note of it for the future - maybe it will be
useful to me.

>> knee-jerk reaction?
>
> In a way, yes :-)
>
>> Yes, Nutxx is another free RTOS - but there is space for a
>
> I've seen, it is actually quiet "old" (already version 5).
>
>> selection of RTOS's in this world, both free and non-free. There are a
>> great many people using free OS's of various sorts and various sizes.
>
> Sure. But I just wonder why again and again new RTOS's appear, and all
> repeat the same philosophy (shared memory, semaphores).
>

Most RTOS's (free or otherwise) have reasonably similar designs, as far
as I have seen. However, I could well imagine applications where some
of the features of Nutxx, such as its shell and its file system support,
would make it a very strong contender. To my mind, that makes it
another /interesting/ free RTOS.