MontaVista Software Offers Preview of 5.0 Products.MontaVista offers customers the chance to preview new features from upcoming 5.0 products SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- MontaVista Software MontaVista Software develops systems software, development tools and Embedded Linux-based software targeting embedded systems such as automotive electronics, communications equipment, and television set-top boxes and other connected devices and infrastructure. , Inc., the leading embedded Linux The Linux operating system configured and enhanced to work in a wide variety of applications, including handheld devices, network appliances, industrial machines and consumer electronics devices. The modularity of the Linux kernel makes it well suited to embedded systems. provider for the telecommunications, mobile, and embedded markets, today announced a technology preview of its 5.0 products which are scheduled for release in the first half of 2007. The interactive preview will be available to all of MontaVista's current subscription customers. The technology preview will not only allow customers to experience the new features available in the 5.0 product lineup, but will also provide them with a quality platform for testing current applications in the upcoming 5.0 product environment. The platform will give customers the chance to identify and validate the changes needed to successfully migrate to upcoming MontaVista's 5.0 products. Additionally, customers will be exposed to the technology trends that MontaVista is implementing and as a result can begin application development on the current common code base offered by MontaVista. "Customers depend on MontaVista to differentiate their products and get them to market faster at lower overall development costs," said Oren Teich, director of product management, MontaVista Software. "This technology preview gives them the opportunity to prepare and experience first-hand the innovative features of MontaVista's forthcoming 5.0 products so they can successfully operate in today's competitive Linux environment." The technology preview highlights the following new features of MontaVista's 5.0 product lineup: * 2.6.18 kernel integrating real-time - New kernel offering the first embedded OS See embedded operating system. to provide integration of the latest real-time patches from Ingo Molnar, a leading contributor to Linux kernel The nucleus of the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus Torvalds, was integrated with software from the GNU Project and other sources to create the actual Linux operating system. See Linux, GNU/Linux and kernel. development. These patches will provide enhanced user space options in real-time. * 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). 4.2.0 - Updated GCC compiler, version 4.2, which enhances performance through inter-procedural optimizations, autovectorization, and improved debugging capabilities using location lists. * IPv6 - Additional support for Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. version 6 (IPv6) which offers a more comprehensive level of support than in past product versions. * OProfile - The continuous system-wide profiler for Linux functions from the kernel to applications allowing data to be collected at any time. * mpatrol - A tool to diagnose run time memory errors and leaks and also acts as a library for controlling and tracing dynamic memory allocations. * USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. "On-The-Go" (OTG (1) See USB OTG. (2) (The OBJECTive Technology Group, Ltd., Alexandria, VA) An organization that was devoted to distributed computing and object technology. Founded in 1994, it augmented the object and Internet standards community and served as an intermediary between ) - The USB OTG (USB On The Go) An enhancement to USB that enables portable USB devices to be cabled directly together without the need for a PC in between. Fully compliant with USB 2.0, USB OTG devices began to ship in 2002. support addresses the need for mobile interconnectivity by allowing direct communication when a PC is not available. The technology preview will be provided as a VMWare disk image, usable with VMWare's free VMWare player on any Linux or Windows machine. About MontaVista Software MontaVista is the leading embedded Linux provider for the telecommunications, mobile, and embedded markets. MontaVista delivers a complete, flexible and open operating system, which allows designers to innovate across a wide range of mobile and wireless devices and communications infrastructures. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., MontaVista has operations in 15 countries. For more information, please visit www.mvista.com. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a registered trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. |
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