Author: JT Smith
LinuxDevices reports: “Ever since Cygnus proposed EL/IX in the Fall of 1999, few companies — other than Red Hat, which acquired
Cygnus late last year — have committed to supporting the would-be embedded OS standard. Many Embedded
Linux companies have privately speculated that Red Hat’s primary motivation for promoting EL/IX as a Linux
application program interface (API) has really been to create the opportunity for applications to migrate from
Linux to eCos (“Red Hat’s other open source OS”) which, like EL/IX, Red Hat inherited through its acquisition of
Cygnus.”
Cygnus late last year — have committed to supporting the would-be embedded OS standard. Many Embedded
Linux companies have privately speculated that Red Hat’s primary motivation for promoting EL/IX as a Linux
application program interface (API) has really been to create the opportunity for applications to migrate from
Linux to eCos (“Red Hat’s other open source OS”) which, like EL/IX, Red Hat inherited through its acquisition of
Cygnus.”
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