Wind River Continues Advancing Development of IoT Devices with Latest Version of Market-Leading Linux Offering
October 05 2015 - 3:01AM
Business Wire
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Company releases Wind River Linux 8
with improved out-of-the-box experience and scalability for
addressing the opportunities and challenges of IoT.
- Latest version of Wind River Linux uses
kernel and toolchain from the upcoming Yocto Project 2.0
release.
- Wind River also adds new capabilities
to its Open Virtualization profile enabling building and deploying
high-performance cloud operating systems.
EMBEDDED LINUX CONFERENCE EUROPE – Wind River®, a global
leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT),
today introduced the latest version of Wind River Linux. Wind River
Linux 8 brings together the flexibility and interoperability of
open source along with improved user experience and scalability for
addressing the opportunities and challenges of IoT. The company
also introduced new features for Wind River Open
Virtualization.
The latest version of Wind River Linux delivers an improved
out-of-the-box experience with a significant reduction in set-up
and installation time, allowing customers to start developing
applications within minutes. It uses the latest kernel and
toolchain from the upcoming Yocto Project 2.0 release, Linux kernel
4.1, and GNU toolchain 5.2. Driving a broad ecosystem of silicon
partners, Wind River Linux features hardware support for the latest
Intel® architecture, as well as ARM®, MIPS, and PowerPC®.
Wind River Linux 8 will serve as the baseline for all existing
technology profiles, including Carrier Grade Profile for Wind River
Linux, Security Profile for Wind River Linux, and the newly
enhanced Open Virtualization profile for building and deploying a
cloud operating system. The new features enable cloud services and
high-performance computing capabilities to integrate a compute node
to a number of frameworks or infrastructure providers.
“Wind River Linux allows customers to extract vast amounts of
business intelligence and value from their data, and supports
devices of all sizes, architectures, and industries—from general
purpose and high-performing real-time devices to carrier grade,
virtualization, and highly secure military applications,” said
Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of operating
system platforms at Wind River. “With the latest version of Wind
River Linux and our updated Open Virtualization profile, we are
delivering a versatile and robust Linux offering to the market that
is ideally suited for the development of IoT devices.”
Developed from the Yocto Project open source development
infrastructure, Wind River Linux uses the latest Linux kernel as
its upstream source to ensure customers have commercially supported
access to the newest advancements from the open source community.
Wind River Linux is part of the Wind River Helix™ portfolio of
products enabling IoT advancements.
"Wind River continues to do important work with the Linux
community, as well as foster open source innovation," said Jim
Zemlin, executive director at Linux Foundation. “We look forward to
the company’s ongoing contributions to the Yocto Project, and their
market success with products like Wind River Linux.”
Wind River is a gold member of the Yocto Project Advisory Board,
and continues to be a top contributor to the Yocto Project, holding
numerous maintainer and technical lead positions, and contributing
more than one third of the Yocto Project lines of code.
Wind River open source solutions are being showcased at Wind
River Booth No. 5 at Embedded Linux Conference Europe October 5–7.
For more information on Wind River Linux 8 visit
http://tinyurl.com/WindRiverLinux8. To learn more about Wind River
open source leadership, visit:
www.windriver.com/products/linux/open-source-leadership/.
About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation
(NASDAQ: INTC), is a global leader in delivering software for the
Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing
inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in
more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive
portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges
and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global
professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad
partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise
that enable the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and
reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit
www.windriver.com.
Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River
Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Other names may be the trademarks
of their respective owners.
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Wind RiverJessica Miller,
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