Star Finally, Secure Real-Time on the Desktop
Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 17:34 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Linux Lennart Poettering of Red Hat, PulseAudio maintainer has blogged in detail about the impact of Real-Time Group scheduling in 2.6.25 kernel. The Real time patches come from -rt patchset maintained by Ingo Molnar of Red Hat which aims to make Linux the first general purpose operating system with hard real time features.
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tomcat
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2006-01-06

The definition of hard real time is, in fact, so pedantic, that I think I can say with reasonable certainty, that nobody, except maybe God, legitimately needs it. In short, I think there's a Universal market of maybe 1 real time computer. And you can quote me on that. ;-)


Try to remember that the next time you're riding on a plane and you're approaching for landing. Or, when you need to stop suddenly in your car. Or, when a nuke plant operator needs to regulate cooling. Because those are scenarios where it's needed.

Edited 2008-04-19 23:12 UTC

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