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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Really, it's about time

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Incredible story !! 🤓

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ZDNet? Haven't heard that one in a minute.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

👏👏 nicely done! Bravo!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does this mean android auto won’t be slow in the future?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If i understood the article correctly, real time means predicable and reliable, not necessarily fast. It's common in medical devices, avionics, etc. So this is going to benefit embedded devices the most.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If your speedometer/tachometer is a screen instead of dials, it's extremely likely it's running Linux, too

So still somewhat useful in the auto space

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

If it's more than a few years old, it's extremely unlikely it ever sees this kernel update.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

android auto

First I heard of this, but since it seems to be just some software that runs on the hardware of car manufacturers it seems rather unlikely. But very theoretically possible, if the car manufacturer was using default process scheduling in a CPU constrained machine and now switches to real-time scheduling in an update. But that was possible for years before this news, the code has just been mainlined to the default kernel now. If the car manufacturer cared about that they would probably have done it already with a patched kernel.