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What is the difference between VxWorks and Linux?
The difference between VxWorks and Linux is that VxWorks is a real-time operating system, whereas Linux is an operating system. VxWorks has its maximum use in electronic devices and embedded systems, whereas Linux was mainly designed to be used in computers and smartphones. Linux is also an American operating system.
Does VxWorks use a Linux kernel?
Since RTLinux is based on regular Linux kernel and VxWorks is a real-time system from the beginning the handling of interrupts are managed in different ways.
Is VxWorks monolithic?
VxWorks is a monolithic kernel design that is highly optimized to achieve the best possible performance on each hardware platform, and Wind River stands by that approach.
What is Wind River Linux?
Wind River® Linux is the industry’s most advanced embedded Linux development platform, with a comprehensive suite of products, tools, and lifecycle services to build and support intelligent edge devices.
What is VxWorks kernel?
VxWorks is a real-time operating system made by Wind River Systems, Inc. The VxWorks kernel is highly modularized and promises fast and predictable interrupt response. Notable differences to Unix are: A priority-based preemptive scheduler without time-slicing.
Where is VxWorks used?
VxWorks is used by products across a wide range of market areas: aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial such as robots, consumer electronics, medical area and networking. Several notable products also use VxWorks as the onboard operating system.
What is monolithic kernel in Linux?
A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture where the entire operating system is working in kernel space. A set of primitives or system calls implement all operating system services such as process management, concurrency, and memory management. Device drivers can be added to the kernel as modules.
What is socket kernel and monolithic kernel?
a socket, is also called server, while the other processes are called clients. While monolithic kernels use signals and sockets to ensure inter process communication, the µ-kernel approach uses message queues. It grants, that all parts of the system are exchangeable.
Is Linux monolithic kernel?
In general, most kernels fall into one of three types: monolithic, microkernel, and hybrid. Linux is a monolithic kernel while OS X (XNU) and Windows 7 use hybrid kernels.
What is kernel in VxWorks?
The kernel shell is a core tool to execute, monitor, and debug kernel and real-time process code. This set of topics covers configuration and usage of the VxWorks kernel shell, and explains the Object Module Loader. Product: VxWorks 7.