Bringing you the latest news from the Linux World. Here is the permanent site for this page. Leading items and editorials The other free software war . There are two competing free software projects out there, both working on solutions to the same problem.
Corporate interests are increasingly visible, and accusations of selling out are occasionally heard.
There is also occasional talk of bringing the two projects together, but it doesn't look likely to ever happen. This project is the creation of Paolo Mantegazza at the Politecnico di Milano. Thus the full set of Linux capabilities is there to use whenever no hard real-time task needs the processor. For example, no dynamic memory allocation is possible in RTLinux. RTAI aims to provide a broader set of features to the real-time programmer, but only runs on Intel systems.