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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:16:22 +0200
From: Robert Schwebel <robert@schwebel.de>
To: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:11:58AM -0700, Stephen Samuel wrote:
> http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html contains an index to a number of
> Linux distributions.  Check out the embeded kernels. They include some
> Realtime mods. As an example, RTLinux claims to do hard realtime by
> running the Linux kernel as it's lowest priority task. This is supposed
> to allow serious realtime work without having to mess too much with
> the kernel.

Take also into account that RT-Linux is patented technology (for details
see http://www.aero.polimi.it/~rtai/documentation/articles/moglen.html).

There is also RTAI as an alternative, which has a very supportive user
community. 

Robert
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