Red Hat has launched a program to support embedded deployments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The “Red Hat Runtime” program targets developers looking for a well-supported Linux foundation on which to build commercial embedded systems and devices that are not particularly resource-constrained and which are based on mainstream architectures.
Red Hat to embedded: “I’m back”
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Focker> Please come with some nice arguments/facts instead, or shut-the-troll-up. Linux is used a lot in mobilephones/set-top-boxes/navigator systems and I expect it to be growing.
RedHat simply seems to have no coherent strategy! This is what they did with the [Linux] desktop. First they say there is no money there…then they are interested later on. I do not see it working as yet, and I do not think it will.
Cb..
Damnit Focker, have you been puffing the magic draggon?
(back On Topic)
I think this announcement coincides with MontaVista’s work on making linux a real-time kernel system. RH can obviously see that the patches will eventually be accepted when they’re good enough, and that means linux+embedded devices have a pretty big future.
Things change.
Red Hat is the more Profitable enterprise in open source. Are you sure they are always wrong ?
Red Hat’s next RHEL release gets embedded support for free with the long awaited move to the 2.6 kernel. They just flip the config switch, compile a new kernel image, and oila!, a specialized release of RHEL, with its own iso image.
All they actually add is a cross-compiling toolchain, packaged nicely in the ELDS. Its funny how they justify their previous lack of embedded support using marketspeak, when it was actually a technical issue in seaming the uCLinux patches with their extensive Red Hat patchset. Now that uCLinux is in the kernel, bye-bye technical issues, and hello sudden marketability…
Redhat introduces redhat linux which tries to be a distro for the retail consumer market as well and enterprises
Redhat decides to fork its own distro
fedora for open source enthusiasts who want latest and greatest and
redhat enterprise for long life cycles and well supported software
Redhat teams up with wind river( previously called bsdi) to enter embedded market
i see a very coherent strategy. please tell me whats your confusion?
All this talk about embedded, what exactly is meant by the term?? I appologize for this question, but I’m not exactly sure what it is and the significance of it!
Is there a link that could explain?
GOT A LINK?
Here an article on O’Reilly on the matter:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/lpt/a/3870
“embedded systems and devices that are not particularly resource-constrained”
Technically correct use of terms maybe, but by mainstream news headlines standards this is misleading.
My interpretation is that RH and RHEL is trying to differentiate from GNU Linux and yet remain compatible.
“Troll” is only to be used by 14-year old spotted geeks in Slashdot. People have opinions and counter-opinions. Sometime there is basis to them, sometime there is not. Discussion “trolls” exist only in the imagination of imbeciles.
Huh. Someone in 2004 who has never been on usenet. How singularly amusing.
Huh. Someone in 2004 who has never been on usenet. How singularly amusing.
Make it: someone in 2004 who never wasted time on silly usenet groups.
Which runtime d’you app running on?
Java? .NET? or Red Hat?
Where i can download redhat for sharp zaurus SL-5500?
Red Hat’s next RHEL release gets embedded support for free with the long awaited move to the 2.6 kernel. They just flip the config switch, compile a new kernel image, and oila!, a specialized release of RHEL, with its own iso image.
Ha! If you think it’s that simple, you’re deceiving yourself. Hundreds of hours of QA, testing, builds, development, and costly ISV certification will be involved before they can make a release.
Enterprise companies and other businesses buy RHEL because of this. If RedHat spent as little effort as you suggest no one would buy it and it wouldn’t be as stable as it is.