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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by rudolph9 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:25PM (#24346621)
Are there any open source real-time operating systems?
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by jacquesm on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:27PM (#24346637)
None with a GUI. I never released mine, and it's so far behind the times now it would take major work to get it ported to the 64 bit era and even then it would still be a C based OS.

This would be one way in which the Rust crowd could really make a difference.

Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by pedrocr on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:43PM (#24348433)
Redox seems like a big effort that has at least some of the properties you're looking for:

https://www.redox-os.org/

Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by TheCycoONE on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:05PM (#24348977)
But Redox is not a real time OS is it? I've not seen it written as part of the design or as a future goal.
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by pedrocr on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:00AM (#24352755)
It's a microkernel with even the drivers running in userspace, and has its own graphics stack. Seems the ideal setting to go for realtime requirements for the UI. I don't know if they've done anything in that direction but it seems the most well positioned to fulfill the requirements jacquesm was hoping for.
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by jacquesm on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:38PM (#24354965)
If they can see it through then that's a pretty good development. But there is more to QnX than just 'realtime' and 'microkernel', their whole philosophy about how a cluster of machines should work, the services location and so on is very well thought out. I'd be happier if Redox took some more lessons from Erlang and QnX on board than to do a re-invention. We have a lot of knowledge about systems like that lying around and re-inventing the wheel is fun but also ultimately will lead to having to re-learn those lessons the hard way.
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by pedrocr on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:00PM (#24355198)
Perhaps you should lend a hand then? :)
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by snovv_crash on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @06:47AM (#24351911)
Not for large systems, but in the embedded space there is Nuttx (now managed by Apache foundation).