After years of promises, real-time Linux is actually shipping.

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After years of promises, real-time Linux is actually shipping. The mainstream take is that this is about lower latency, but the real story is deterministic scheduling for control systems that can't tolerate jitter. PREEMPT_RT removes the final excuse for proprietary RTOS holdouts, and that's a bigger deal than most realize. #kernel #realtime #embedded