FSMLabs announces RTLinuxFree for Linux 2.6

FSMLabs Press Release
June 10, 2005

***RTLinuxFree Turbo-Charges Linux 2.6

Community-focused Real-time Platform Update Serves Free 
Software Developers

Socorro, NM - June 10, 2005 - FSMLabs, (http://www.fsmlabs.com) 
today announced a new release of the free version of RTLinux 
designed for deployment with Linux version 2.6 kernels. RTLinux 
virtualizes the hardware interface enabling a hard real-time 
kernel to run on top of  Linux and to offer hardware level 
hard-real time low-latency event response and periodic scheduling. 
RTLinux Free for 2.6 uses  some of the technology already used in  
FSMLabs RTLinuxPro for Linux 2.6 and provides real-time POSIX 
threads, interrupt handlers, synchronization methods, and clean, 
efficient, communication mechanisms between the real-time 
environment and applications operating in the non-real-time Linux
client.

The update to Linux 2.6 for RTLinuxFree was implemented by OS3 Valencia,
a systems development company operating in Spain and Portugal that 
spun-off from the EU's RTLinuxFree OCERA project. RTLinuxFree developers
are primarily focused on building embedded/real-time applications, not 
on kernel hacking, explains Pau Mendoza of OS3 Valencia. To support 
this global free software community, FSMLabs and OS3 stepped in to
update RTLinux kernel support and other capabilities." 

Victor Yodaiken, CEO of FSMLabs, adds "RTLinux began as an academic 
research project and flourished as RTLinuxFree spread world wide. When 
FSMLabs turned to focus on our RTLinuxPro and RTCore BSD products, the 
burden of RTLinux Free support was taken up by a vigorous and inventive 
international community of  researchers, students, and commercial free 
software developers.  It is gratifying that FSMLabs has grown enough
that we are again able to invest some resources in RTLinuxFree.  It is
doubly gratifying to be able to work with OS3, one of the first
commercial spin-off's from OCERA.

***Availability

RTLinuxFree 3.1 is available immediately for download from the project 
web site at http://www.rtlinuxfree.com. OS3 Valencia and other project 
members anticipate a follow-on 3.2 release in the near future to 
incorporate changes and additions from the OCERA consortium (Open source
Components for Embedded Real-time Applications).

This free community-supported platform for real-time Linux is licensed 
under the GPL and FSMLabs Open Patent License. 

For commercial projects needing real-time responsiveness coupled with 
the openness of GNU/Linux and BSD UNIX operating systems, FSMLabs and 
its worldwide channel partners offer RTLinuxPro and RTCore/BSD. 
Visit http://www.fsmlabs.com for additional details. 

**About FSMLabs

FSMLabs provides hard real-time solutions designed for reliability and 
simplicity of operation, that target mission-critical applications. 
FSMLabs was founded in 1998 and is a privately held, revenue financed, 
core system software developer with headquarters in New Mexico and sales
and engineering staff in Alaska, Florida, India, Russia, Korea, and
Japan. FSMLabs products include RTLinuxPro, RTCore BSD, Lnet real-time
networking, PSDD protected memory real-time and ControlsKit XML/RPC
interface builder. For more information, visit www.fsmlabs.com or email
[email protected]

**About OS3
OS3 is dedicated to design and implementation of solutions based on open
source. The goal of OS3 is to build on the latest innovations in open
and free software, to allow customers to meet their technology goals
with minimal cost and maximum performance.

OS3 grew out of research projects involving RTLinux carried out at the 
Polytechnic University of Valencia and other European universities as
part of OCERA  Open source Components for Embedded Real-Time
Applications. 

For more information, visit http://www.os3sl.com  and
http://www.ocera.org 

RTLinux, RTCore, Lnet, PSDD, ControlsKit, and FSMLabs are registered 
trademarks of Finite State Machine Labs Inc. Linux is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds.  

All other trademarks are the property of their respective organizations.

Contacts:       
Patti Dorn - [email protected]
FSM Labs, Inc.
505.838.9109


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