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Its a good thing you said open source * nix because a lot of the early commercial UNIXes were buggy and unstable. Also I hope you are not using Plan 9 or Open S
by ksk 10y ago
Its a good thing you said open source * nix because a lot of the early commercial UNIXes were buggy and unstable. Also I hope you are not using Plan 9 or Open Solaris or MINIX or a few of the other opensource *nixes which are also not suitable. So maybe it looks like you just meant Linux? :)
- tbrownaw 10y agoOr one of the BSDs.
- linksnapzz 10y agoUnsuitable, how? Solaris has had realtime capability for fifteen years, and most recently has been the embedded OS of choice for Sun/Oracle storage appliances. plan9 not being Unix (at all) nonwithstanding, Coraid's AoE products have used plan9 as an embedded OS in the past. Certainly in the recent past, US destroyers had embedded signal-processing systems built by a well-known HPC vendor running a derivative of INRIA ChorusOS. Green Hills Software's Integrity RTOS && development environment are also quite commercial, and have many successful deployments. Any insinuation that military or embedded applications should be Linux (or Windows) deployments, or even necessarily free software, is ahistoric and, IMO, under-informed.