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Re:Linux Foundation to support Zephyr microkernel by MrTonyD on Thursday February 18, 2016 @04:59PM (#11129652)
Are you saying that Zephyr is Rocket? I didn't see anything in the press release saying that, and I didn't see anything on the web site saying that (admittedly, I only spent a few minutes looking...).

If it is Rocket, is it a product that couldn't get traction so now they are giving it away?

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Re:Linux Foundation to support Zephyr microkernel by Animats on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:14PM (#11130152)
Here's the statement from Wind River:[1] "Wind River contributed the Rocket kernel to Zephyr who brings together industry leaders in software and hardware to build an RTOS for IoT." There will still be a proprietary version of Rocket, which is the same kernel but also has components for connecting to Wind River's "App Cloud", which seems to be a hosted IDE. The Zephyr project offers only command line build tools under Linux.

[1] http://blogs.windriver.com/wind_river_blog/2016/02/wind-rive...

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