RTLinux Project Dead?

Marc Briand

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Jun 27, 2003, 12:37:24 PM6/27/03

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I just read Karim Yaghmour's article on oreillynet
<http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/06/09/embedlinux.html> in
which he says,

"At the time of this writing, the RTLinux project is practically dead
and none of the those working on the commercial offerings of FSMLabs,
the company founded by RTLinux's creator to market RTLinux, is actively
contributing new open source RTLinux code, or helping users on the
RTLinux mailing list."

I was wondering if anyone on this group had an opinion about this. I am
considering getting involved in an RTLinux project and I find this
article fairly disturbing.

Thanks,

Marc

G. Remlin

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Jun 27, 2003, 11:59:25 AM6/27/03

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At the bottom of the article, the author is identified:

"the founder and president of Opersys Inc."

Unbiased? Has a financial interest in the death of RTLinux?

Regards,

George

Robert Kaiser

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Jun 27, 2003, 12:04:42 PM6/27/03

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In article <3EFC72C4...@sunflower.com>,

Marc Briand <marcb...@sunflower.com> writes:
> "At the time of this writing, the RTLinux project is practically dead
> and none of the those working on the commercial offerings of FSMLabs,
> the company founded by RTLinux's creator to market RTLinux, is actively
> contributing new open source RTLinux code, or helping users on the
> RTLinux mailing list."
>
> I was wondering if anyone on this group had an opinion about this. I am
> considering getting involved in an RTLinux project and I find this
> article fairly disturbing.

If the RTLinux project is really dead, that doesn't necessarily
mean real-time Linux is dead. The RTAI project is alive and well
and, from what I hear, it seems to be a better alternative anyway.
If you are just about to get involved (i.e. you do not have any
RTLinux legacy to deal with), then why choose RTLinux over RTAI?

Rob

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Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser AT sysgo DOT de
SYSGO AG http://www.elinos.com
Klein-Winternheim / Germany http://www.sysgo.de

Herman Bruyninckx

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Jun 27, 2003, 2:24:10 PM6/27/03

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IMHO, he refers to the fact that RTAI has a much better record of
accepting contributions from anybody with a good patch.
Unconditionally, and without keeping a core of code with "undisturbed"
copyrights, in order to protect a product with a proprietary license.
While the RTlinux people are devoting the largest part of their
efforts on their closed cource RTLinux/PRO. So, RTLinux is not dead,
but has succeeded in scaring away quite some good and independent
developers. That does _not_ mean RTLinux/GPL is a bad or deprecated
product. Not at all. And RTLinux/PRO is certainly better supported
professionaly.

Herman

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K.U.Leuven, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Research Group
<http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/~bruyninc> Tel: +32 16 322480

Victor Yodaiken

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Jun 27, 2003, 3:16:34 PM6/27/03

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Marc Briand <marcb...@sunflower.com> wrote in message news:<3EFC72C4...@sunflower.com>...

You could take a look at the rtlinux.org mailing list and you'll find
that
RTLinux Free is moving along and has a good group of active
participants. RTLinuxPro is also doing very well, by the way. Mr.
Yaghmour doesn't like us much, but we have stumbled along without his
help.

> Thanks,
>
> Marc

nikhil bhargav

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Jun 30, 2003, 5:11:13 AM6/30/03

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yoda...@fsmlabs.com (Victor Yodaiken) wrote in message news:<5799d5f7.0306...@posting.google.com>...

Hi friends,

Its a sad thing that Mr. Karim's article has created such a fuzz. I am
at present working on RTLinux only in my company CDOT and find it
fully equipped to
meet real time challenges for my call processing work. So its a hot
thing as far as a Real Linux based RTOS is considered.

bye,

nikhil bhargava
nik...@cdotp.ernet.in