eCosCentric Announces eCos 2.0 Beta
Linked by Eugenia Loli on Mon 17th Mar 2003 22:47 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes eCosCentric Limited working in conjunction with the eCos maintainers, today announced the release of eCos 2.0 Beta, the latest version of the eCos real-time operating system.
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by Alex (The Original) on Tue 18th Mar 2003 09:44 UTC

Yes I have to agree, I love eComStation ;) ;)

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by Alex (The Original) on Tue 18th Mar 2003 12:54 UTC

So this is another real time OS like QNX I guess.

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by Robert Renling on Tue 18th Mar 2003 17:53 UTC

ecos is a embedded os aimed for cellphones afaik.
And it's sponsored by redhat.

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by sam on Tue 18th Mar 2003 18:30 UTC

>>>And it's sponsored by redhat.

Not anymore. RedHat fired all their ecos engineers last year and some of those out-of-work people formed eCosCentric. The only thing RedHat do for ecos right now is that the redhat website is still hosting the project, that's it.

You will also notice that ecos 2.0 is under a "modified" GPL licence, because plain GPL licence is problematic in embedded environment. Which kind of reinforced IBM's point (see their old interview by the S/390 guy) that GPL embedded linux is a dead end.

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by Robert Renling on Wed 19th Mar 2003 00:22 UTC

Ah thanks sam for clarifying i was trying to get some info on this just some days ago, thanks for giving me the heads up for a change .

Cheers
Rob.

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