Linux has fast become the operating system of choice for new device development. Industry analysts who follow the embedded OS industry have shown embedded Linux is used for the majority of new 32-bit and 64-bit designs, far more any any other embedded operating system.

Due to the many advantages of embedded Linux, design teams around the world are migrating their legacy RTOS projects to embedded Linux. Why? Because Linux delivers the performance, cost benefits, and flexibility developers want and require. It used to be thought Linux could not offer the performance of a proprietary RTOS, but today it's been proven again and again Linux delivers.

Migrating to Linux doesn't mean starting over from scratch, or throwing away years of investment in existing code. We have collected some resources to help you in your migration from your current RTOS to Linux, everything from white papers to software tools to porting services.

Migration Resources

Mapusoft OS Changer for MontaVista Linux - commercial software to assist you in migrating to MontaVista Linux from VxWorks, Nucleus, Windows, and other proprietary OS

• White paper
• Datasheet
• Partner Page

Xenomai - Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment.

• Website
• Wikipedia

V2Lin -v2lin is a fork of the outdated legacy2linux/v2linux project. v2lin supports recent POSIX-compliant glibc.

• Website

legacy2linux - was an open source project started by MontaVista; it is now obsolete, and has been replaced by v2lin

Other Resources

Information Library - white papers, presentations, and other assets created by MontaVista and others to help you quickly and succesfully migrate to Linux

FAQ - Frequently asked questions about RTOS Migration

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