An RTOS is a specialized operating system designed to handle time-critical tasks with precision and reliability. Unlike general-purpose operating systems like Windows or macOS, an RTOS is built to ...

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Red Hat and Novell developers work together on improving the kernel’s real-time performance. But outside the idyllic calm of the linux-kernel mailing list, marketing bluster continues. Jonathan Corbet ...

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