MontaVista Linux

MontaVista Softwareis a company that developsembedded Linuxsystem software, development tools, and related software. Its products are targeted at other corporations developingembedded systemssuch asautomotiveelectronics,communicationsequipment,mobile phones, and other electronics devices and infrastructure.

MontaVista is based inSanta Clara, Californiaand was founded in 1999 byJames "Jim" Ready(previously atMentor Graphicsand creator ofVRTX) and others. On November 10, 2009Cavium Networksannounced that it had signed a definitive agreement to purchase MontaVista for $50 million.

MontaVista Linux

May 12, 2009 MontaVista announced MontaVista Linux 6 (MVL6) comprising Market Specific Distributions, MontaVista Integration Platform, Software Development Kit, MontaVista Zone Content Server, and support and services. There are a number of differences between MVL6 and previous MontaVista Linux products. The main ones are:

• Market Specific Distributions (MSD) – Linux operating systems (Kernel+Userland) optimized for each specific semiconductor vendor's hardware.

• MontaVista Integration Platform – based onBitBake, analogous to “make,” which analyzes a set of directives and then builds a task dependency tree to satisfy a user command. BitBake then executes the defined tasks to completion.

• MontaVista Zone Content Server – accessed from behind aproxy, or localmirrorfor offline operations, to fetch software and updates. Rather than depending on a slew of publicHTTP,CVS,git, andSubversionservers across the Internet there is a single source for every original sourcearchiveandpatch.

MontaVista Linux(formerly known asHard Hat Linux) is aLinux distributionthat has been enhanced to become a full fledgedreal-time operating system. The work on real-time performance has since continued to a point where MontaVista claims to supporthard real-timetasks on embedded Linux as of MontaVista Linux 4.0, with response times as fast as other real-time operating systems.^[3]

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