Projects tagged ‘embedded’ and ‘kernel’

NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. ... [More] Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection. [Less]

The OpenEZX project tries to gather information about the Linux-based Motorola EZX phone platform (mainly the A780, E680 and E680i phones). It further tries to provide a 100% free software stack ... [More] for those phones, especially a way to avoid any proprietary filesystem and/or device drivers. It also aims to provide a current (2.6.x) kernel with all required hardware support for the EZX phones. [Less]

The goal of the Syllable project is to create a family of easy-to-use free software operating systems. It is the continuation of the BeOS-like AtheOS. Syllable Desktop has its own C kernel with ... [More] symmetric multiprocessing, multithreaded pre-emptive multitasking, high POSIX compliancy, 64-bit journaled filesystem (AFS) with metadata, an integrated native GUI architecture with an object-oriented C++ API, SDL, singular native toolkit and multi-user desktop environment. The system seeks to be an integrated, lightweight, easy-to-program, powerful, high-performance graphical desktop environment which avoids legacy OS paradigms that frustrate developers and have hindered the computing masses' adoption of a free-software desktop. Syllable Server is a matching small and efficient Linux server. [Less]

Bringing Linux to the Embedded World. We hack Palm handhelds.

A port of the Linux kernel and tools to the iPod.

µClinux is a Linux distribution like any other Linux distribution, focused on embedded projects, built from the Linux kernel from kernel.org and assorted other packages, and software from the GNU ... [More] project. Since µClinux is optimized for size, it uses more compact alternatives (busybox, µclibc, etc) than a non-embedded distribution. Pronounced "you-see-linux", the name µClinux comes from combining the greek letter "mu" and the english capital "C". "µ" stands for "micro", and the "C" is for "controller". µClinux supports embedded processors which support MMU (protection and virtual memory support), noMMU (no protection, no virtual memory) and MPU (memory protection, but no virtual memory support). The µClinux-dist includes userspace apps & libs, toolchain, c library, kernel and Bootloader. [Less]

This project creates RAM based block device (named ramzswap) which acts as swap disk. Pages swapped to this disk are compressed and stored in memory itself. Compressing pages and keeping them in ... [More] RAM virtually increases its capacity. This allows more applications to fit in given amount of memory. The usual argument I get is - memory is so cheap so why bother with compression? So I list here some of the use cases. Rest depends on your imagination :) Embedded Devices: Memory is scarce and adding more memory increases device cost. Also, flash storage suffers from wear-leveling issues, so its useful if we can avoid using them as swap device. Netbooks: Market is now getting flooded with these "lighweight laptops". These are memory constrained but have CPU enough to drive on compressed me [Less]

JingleOS is a community operating system for embedded devices which aims to achieve dependability by design, as well as intrinsic real time support. It can be used on ARM and x86 systems although, due ... [More] to Java programming language, it might be easily ported to others architectures. [Less]

BlueCat® embedded Linux® from LynuxWorks™, based on the 2.6 kernel, is an implementation of the Linux model enhanced for use in embedded systems ranging from small consumer-type devices to ... [More] large-scale, multi-CPU systems. BlueCat Embedded Linux 5.x features * Preemptible kernel— preemption points in the kernel allow you to suspend an executing process so that you can launch another, higher-priority process. * Low-latency scheduler— ensures that processes are executed, giving users increased determinism * Improved POSIX® threading support— open-standards ideology providing compatibility of applications over different architectures, complementing our LynxOS strategy * POSIX timers— time and alarm management needed for real-time. Applications requiring high throughput or fast [Less]

MirOS BSD is a secure operating system from the BSD family for 32-bit i386 and sparc systems. It is based on 4.4BSD-Lite (mostly OpenBSD, some NetBSD®). The MirPorts Framework is a portable ports ... [More] tree to facilitate the installation of additional software. The project also releases some portable software: mksh, a pdksh-based shell; PaxMirabilis, an archiver for various formats; MirMake, a framework for building software; MirNroff, an AT&T nroff based man page (and text document) formatter; MirCksum, a flexible checksumming and hash generation tool; and some more. [Less]