MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0 Launches; Features Increased Hardware and Software Support and New Development Tools.Business/Technology Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution(TM), today announced MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Professional Edition 3.0, the next generation of the company's cutting edge embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. and development platform. Offering enhanced networking capabilities, increased tools coverage and the latest Linux technology, this newly updated version of the product enables embedded equipment manufacturers to develop an even broader range of devices. "MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0 is the most sophisticated commercial-off-the-shelf Linux system software currently available for embedded developers," said Sheila Baker, vice president of marketing, MontaVista Software. "We can provide OEMs in a variety of industries with a solution that is cost-effective and allows them quick time-to-market for their next-generation products." The 3.0 release of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition continues to enhance the strengths of the company's popular and award-winning systems software. The product is supplied as both pre-built binaries and as a unified source-base across all supported architectures. The kernel in this release is based on the 2.4.18 revision of Linux and the development environment features the latest versions of industry-standard GNU gnu (n  ) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. tools, GDB (programming, tool) GDB - GNU debugger. The FSF's source-level debugger for C, C++ and other languages. Developed by many people but most recently Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>, Stu Grossman <grossman@cygnus.com> and John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus. 5.2 and GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). 3.2, amply supported by a rich complement of deployment components. New features also include improved memory management as well as support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), system and user-level event tracing on an expanded number of architectures, and XFS XFS X Font Server (Sun) XFS Extended File System XFS X-Fleet Sentinels (gaming clan) XFS Extensions for Financial Services (software interface specification) -- a high performance journaling file system. Unrivaled Development Support MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0 boasts the industry's most comprehensive embedded development package with broad support for embedded processor architectures, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. boards and software components. It targets more than 25 processors from eight industry-leading architectures, including x86/IA-32, PowerPC, XScale, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , SH and Xtensa. These CPUs populate the more than 80 boards supported in the release. MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0 focuses on cross-development capability, with tools hosted on eight host environments, including Yellow Dog Linux Yellow Dog Linux (often abbreviated YDL) is a free software, open-source Linux distribution for Power Architecture hardware. It was first released in 1999 for the Apple Inc. Macintosh. , SuSE, Mandrake mandrake, plant of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family), the source of a narcotic much used during the Middle Ages as a pain-killer and perhaps the subject of more superstition than any other plant. , Red Hat, Sun Solaris and VMWare on Windows NT/2000. Host-based tools and embedded target-based deployment components make up the more than 200 software packages in the release. Expanded Development Environment With this release, MontaVista also expands support for a variety of GNU tool chains based on GDB 5.2 and GCC 3.2. The third generation of the GNU compiler adds a number of per-architecture improvements as well as improved support for C++ standards. The product also expands the existing kernel debug support on x86, PowerPC, MIPS, and SH to include kgdb support for ARM, XScale and StrongARM cores. It incorporates enhanced cross debugging capabilities, including the addition of remote multi-threaded debugging and the ability to attach and detach from a running process. The 3.0 release adds system and user-level event tracing for MIPS, ARM and XScale targets, in addition to the existing support for x86 and PowerPC. The MontaVista Library Optimizer Tool, MontaVista Target Configuration Tool, and scores of other useful applications and utilities further enhance the wide range of industry standard tools included in MontaVista Linux Professional Edition. About MontaVista Linux Professional Edition Earlier this year, MontaVista Linux Professional Edition was named "Best Embedded Linux Solution" at the New York Linux World and Expo. The product received the Electron d'Or award for "Best Embedded Tool and Development Solution for 2002" from the prestigious French publication "Electronique," and the Readers' Choice Award for "Favorite Embedded Solution 2002" from the American magazine "Linux Journal." Availability MontaVista Linux 3.0 Professional Edition will be available in December 2002, directly from MontaVista Software and its distribution channels worldwide. It is offered as a product subscription, providing customers with the MontaVista Linux kernel, utilities, development tools, software updates, access to the MontaVista Zone and access to technical support. Current subscribers of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 will be upgraded to version 3.0 at no additional cost. About MontaVista Software MontaVista Software is a leading global supplier of systems software for intelligent connected devices and their associated infrastructure, for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to consumer electronics. MontaVista powers the embedded revolution by providing GNU/Linux based open-source systems software solutions. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista Software's principal products include MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Professional Edition and MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Carrier Grade Edition. The Professional Edition comprises a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, cross development environments, and a versatile set of tools for the x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, SH, ARM, XScale, Xtensa and other microprocessor architectures. The Carrier Grade Edition is a next-generation high availability product and the first commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Linux platform for telecommunications and carrier-grade applications. MontaVista Software also provides several complementary technology products addressing specific customer needs, such as Java development and runtime, powerful graphics capabilities and more. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. funded by leading investors such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE RRE Red Rock Eater (News Service) RRE Road Race Engineering RRE Remote Roof Easy RRE Residential Real Estate RRE Rise-And-Run-Length Encoding RRE Royal Radar Establishment (Great Britain) Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co WR Hambrecht + Co. is a full service investment bank with headquarters in New York and San Francisco. It specializes in using its unique auction process called OpenIPO to compete with the traditional methods of larger and more established banks. ., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel Capital, Panasonic, Sony and Yamaha Corporation. For more information about MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com, email to info@mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200. Note to Editors: Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. |
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