Re: (REAL-TIME LINUX) Re: Futur toolkits ...

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Steve Baker (sbaker++at++link.com)
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:29:27 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Sylvain Mayer wrote:

> Fagan, Tim wrote:
> >
> > I believe that there is a real time version of linux that is
> > very good.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you know something about its Scheduler?
>
> Is it based on a fully preemptive kernel (like Solaris) or does it have
> some preemption points in kernel code (like SVR4)?
>
> I'm just curious because I've never heard about it!

Check out:

  http://www.uk.linux.org/SMP/title.html
  http://luz.cs.nmt.edu/~rtlinux
  http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html

...these are all multi-processing, realtime UNIX clones running on PC's.

I have yet to discover how good they are.

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