LXer: Real Time Coming to Linux Real Soon
 

Published at LXer:

Real Time operating systems have traditionally been a separate breed from mainstream ones. Thanks to efforts to incorporate Real Time enhancements into Linux, standard mainstream Linux may well become a real, Real Time OS real soon. A Real Time OS offers the promise of better response times and a degree of determinism not found in non-Real Time OS's.

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Can't happen soon enough to suit me. I wish Debian provided an optional kernel with the real-time preemption modules built in.