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Do you have any recommendations for a current real-time OS to use? I'd like to try one out on a desktop...
by artmageddon 15y ago
Do you have any recommendations for a current real-time OS to use? I'd like to try one out on a desktop...
- BerislavLopac 15y agoWindows CE, apparently... ;) But there seem to be some other interesting examples, like QNX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real-time_operating_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real-time_operating_sys...
- zokier 15y agoLinux can be configured as RTOS too, but I doubt that it would improve desktop responsiveness.
- 4ad 15y agoRTAI and Xenomai can be considered real time Linux and both require application support. Applications don't just become real time, they must be programmed that way. Common Linux desktop application are not programmed this way. RTLinux is more widely used than RTAI or Xenomai, but it's a completely different model, it's more like a hypervisor. Again, it doesn't help. While the OS provides the serivices, applications must be programmed specifically to use it.
- luriel 15y ago"Real time" can mean many different things. And how "fast" and "real time" a desktop feels usually has little to do with the technically real time (or lack of thereof) of the kernel. That said, Plan 9 has an interesting implementation of real time capabilities: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/real_time/ http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/real_time/