From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Larmour To: eCos discussion Subject: [ECOS] eCos Press Kudos Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:20:00 -0000 Message-id: <3AE599C4.F3D6FAD5@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00361.html Just out of interest, an article in Technology Review ( http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/may01/tristram.asp ) includes the following mention of eCos. -=-=-=-=- Proprietary companies are trying to become more open. Linux supporters are trying to make Linux more embedded. But there might be a better solution than either of these: an open operating system that is designed from the ground up for use in the types of embedded computers that are increasingly pervading our world. Enter eCos, which stands for "embedded configurable operating system." ECos is an open-source, real-time operating system sold by Red Hat of Durham, NC-the leading seller of shrink-wrapped Linux software. "ECos doesn't pretend to be all things to all people," says Bill Gatliff. Gatliff is a software consultant who describes himself as a "free software advocate," even though he is skeptical of embedded Linux. "Everyone talks about Linux having an army of engineers worldwide working on improving the code," he says. "But it's really just a very small number of programmers that are making substantive changes." He says that eCos has "a small set of very good contributors, and that's enough." -=-=-=-=-=- There's plenty more they could have said in the article, but they never talked to Red Hat :-). Jifl -- Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062 Maybe this world is another planet's Hell -Aldous Huxley || Opinions==mine