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It will need to support more processors in the long run i think.
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Enea adds Linux to OS offering
Peter Clarke
3/29/2012 6:17 PM EDT
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Operating system vendor Enea AB (Stockholm, Sweden) announced at the DESIGN West exhibition that it is now supplying Enea Linux together with some complementary technologies.
Enea Linux is a Yocto-based Linux distribution available with customized services and support. In addition, Enea is launching means to enhance the performance and applicability of Linux to networking infrastructure.
Light-Weight Runtime Threads (LWRT) provides improved real-time characteristics such as scheduling, message passing and resource management functionality.
The Enea Packet Acceleration foundation (PAX) will be a modular, graph structured framework designed for high performance hardware-accelerated packet processing. Virtualization is provided through the micro kernel based Enea Hypervisor.
"With Enea Linux and our innovative value-added technologies we have a powerful solution for addressing the Linux and realtime operating system challenges that customers building the next generation networking infrastructure are faced with," said Anders Lidbeck, President and CEO of Enea, in a statement. "Working closely with leading telecom manufacturers we have tailored a Linux distribution that meets the industry's key requirements on flexibility, reliability and performance."
Enea Linux is available for evaluation on Freescale P4080, LSI ACP3448 and AMCC PPC440 processors. The Enea Polyhedra relational database system, the Enea LINX inter-process communications service, and the Enea Gateway (connecting Enea Optima tool suite with Enea’s RTOS targets) will be integrated in the first Enea Linux release.
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www.yoctoproject.org
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Luis Sanchez
3/29/2012 8:10 PM EDT
That Yocto thing looks good. If they achieve the purpose of easing the development process for embedded Linux projects, then this will make embedded Linux proliferate. And Embedded Linux engineer's salaries decrease? Yikes!
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kinnar
3/30/2012 2:28 AM EDT
Yes this will affect the salaries of the Linux Engineers if you more focus towards the outcome of it, but simultaneously it will also increase the acceptability of Linux in embedded systems as Yocto Project is making the porting of OS hardware independent, this way it will also crate more opportunity and salary for embedded engineers.
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sharps_eng
3/31/2012 5:26 PM EDT
Since most programmers' job title is what they claim it is on their resumes, surely they can rewrite it to address a better-paid market? :-)
I am impressed that Linux has such momentum, it appears to be impossible to resist the pressure to implement it on your system, or offer a bundle of your finest middleware and a hopefully suitable Linux release. Presumably there are enough takers to make the investment viable.
However, while Linux is unbeatable for some purposes, it would be naive and against Nature to claim any OS suits all roles, any more than Windows, VRTX or assembler would.
Nonetheless, that is what is happening as Dilbert 'managers' are only approving the one tool that their guys can get FOR FREE to tackle every project:
To a man having only a hammer, everything looks like a nail.'
I find it quietly pleasing that Ada, far from dying off, is seeing a resurgence of interest, with upgrades even. That has to be the cheapest overall solution for anything even slightly mission-critical, even if you have to train your entire staff from scratch.
BTW: What exactly are the qualifications for an Embedded Linux Programmer?
Uh, or for a 'Programmer', even?
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t.alex
4/1/2012 4:48 AM EDT
It will need to support more processors in the long run i think.
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