eCosCentric Limited, the eCos and RedBoot experts, working in conjunction with the eCos maintainers, today announced the release of eCos 2.0, the latest version of the eCos real-time operating system. Available for free download and on CD-ROM, eCos 2.0 supports a total of 74 publically available evaluation and development platforms. Architectural support now covers ARM (including StrongARM and XScale), SuperH, Intel x86 (IA32), PowerPC, MIPS, Matsushita AM3x, Motorola 68K/Coldfire, SPARC, Renesas H8/300H and NEC V850. System enhancements in the 2.0 release include:
RedBoot, the open source bootstrap and debug firmware based on eCos
A choice of TCP/IP stacks including options for BOOTP/DHCP, DNS, TFTP/FTP, SNMP, IPv6 and HTTPD
RAM, ROM and flash file systems
Power management support
USB slave support
A POSIX-compatible API
First I know only about eCos by RedHat. Now there is a company (eCosCentric), which have itself specialized for eCos.
(its a little bit strage, that RedHat support mostly Linux, which they are not owned – and an other company support mostly eCos, which RedHat owned)
But I have found nowhere a screenshot of eCos… 🙁
Is eCos only the kernel, so that a screenshot of it looks like Linux, *BSD, HURD, etc ?
And if its so, what are the differences between eCos and Linux?
Linux is in the embedded-place, too. Why using eCos?
Greatings
Freddy