It is also important to point out that it hasn't made anything safer yet. Only that it is certified that it could. It still has to be implemented somewhere and used for a long period of time before it will take over some of the more common flight components, or processes. This first step is what they needed to even get people to look at using it. So I applaud them for getting there. It is awesome.

And in 10 years we may see more about it in the common Aerospace industry.. ;)

Sincerely,
Judd Pickell

On 3/27/06, Alan Dayley < alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
Be careful about the blurred line here.

Lynuxworks is *not* Linux.  It is a written from scratch, closed source,
hard real-time operating system that is POSIX and Linux *compatible*.  You
can run Linux binaries on it and even run the Linux kernel on it but,
despite the name, it is not Linux.

Read a few of the items just on the main page at
http://www.lynuxworks.com/ to see what I mean.

However, this will get "Linux" applications in the cockpit, probably.  It
will get engineers and software designers using Linux as a development
platform.  And that is good.

I don't see how the Linux kernel will ever get this sort of qualification.
The Linux development model does not lend itself to the documentation,
paperwork, processes etc. that this sort of certification requires, let
alone the design criteria required to meet it!

Alan

Technomage said:
> well, looks like LINUX has made the important stuff safer!
>
> --------------- Forwarded message (begin)
>
> Subject: Linux in the cockpit
> From: Lobo <not@here.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:47:40 -0700
> Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy
>
> http://www.lynuxworks.com/corporate/press/2006/rsc-acceptance.php
>
> "LynuxWorks Achieves Historic Embedded Industry Milestone, LynxOS-178
> Becomes First and only Operating System to Receive FAA Reusable
> Software Component (RSC) Acceptance for Safety-Critical Software"
>
> --------------- Forwarded message (end)


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