MontaVista Software develops systems software, development tools and Embedded Linux-based software targeting consumer electronics which includes automotive electronics, communications equipment, and television set-top boxes and other connected devices and infrastructure. It is based in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 1999 by James "Jim" Ready (previously at Mentor Graphics and creator of VRTX) and others. Embedded Linux refers to the use of the Linux operating system in embedded systems such as cell phones, PDAs, media player handsets, and other consumer electronics devices. ... An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system, which is completely encapsulated by the device it controls. ... Car redirects here. ... Electronics is the study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. ... Communication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols. ... Sunnyvale is the name of some places in the United States of America: Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale, Texas Sunnyvale Trailer Park (Nova Scotia, Canada), is the fictional home of the Trailer Park Boys This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... See also AMPLE Falcon Framework External links Mentor Graphics website Silicon Valley InfoZone - Mentor Graphics Categories: Corporation stubs | EDA companies | Companies based in Oregon | Companies traded on NASDAQ ... Virtual Real-Time Executive (VRTX) is a real-time operating system (RTOS) nowadays developed and marketed by the company Mentor Graphics. ...

Their more famous products include:

• MontaVista Linux, a version of Linux that has been enhanced to become a fully fledged real-time operating system. The core changes done by MontaVista have been made by Robert M. Love and submitted back to the Linux kernel. Ultimately some of these changes have served as a motivating factor in the development of newer features in the mainstream Linux stable kernel 2.6 series. This Linux distribution is available in three editions: Professional Edition, Carrier Grade Edition and Consumer Electronics Edition. The MontaVista Linux toolkit includes specific code libraries to easily migrate from old designs using the Wind River Systems' VxWorks and the pSOS operating systems.
• MontaVista Graphics is a graphic toolkit based on the smallX (previously tinyX) implementation of the X Window System, GTK (including Pango and ATK), FreeType, and IceWM.
• MontaVista DevRocket is an integrated development environment based on Eclipse.

Montavista has historically had strong connections with PowerPC Linux development, and host a development Linux kernel source tree on source.mvista.com. Today, Montavista Linux powers a large number of Linux based Smartphones and other consumer electronics, as well as larger embedded devices. A Real Time Operating System or RTOS is an operating system that has been developed for real-time applications. ... Robert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an author, speaker, and open source hacker. ... The Linux mascot Tux created by Larry Ewing In computing, the Linux kernel is a free Unix-like operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and subsequently improved with the assistance of developers around the world. ... Wind River Systems, Inc. ... VxWorks, made and sold by Wind River Systems of Alameda, California, USA, is a real-time operating system. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... smallX is a stripped-down X Window System server implementation based on XFree86. ... In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... In computing, Pango is an open source library for rendering internationalized texts integrated into GTK+ 2. ... ATK is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, including: Alliant Techsystems, a defense contractor Accessibility Toolkit, part of the GIMP Toolkit development project This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobes Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. ... In Unix computing, IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure. ... An integrated development environment (IDE) (also known as an integrated design environment and integrated debugging environment) is computer software to help computer programmers develop software. ... Eclipse is an open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls rich-client applications (as opposed to thin clients, this means the clients perform heavy-duty work on the host running the application). ...

MontaVista Linux was used in the Motorola A760 and Motorola A768i phones by Motorola. This was despite the fact that Motorola was a founding member of a competing OS, the Symbian OS, released in February 16, 2003 to the China market. This was also the first time Linux was used on a mobile phone. The MontaVista Linux distribution is a very popular Linux distribution in consumer electronics and in Japan. Another of their products is DevRocket, an IDE based on Eclipse, an open source IDE. Both are based on Java. DevRocket runs on Linux, Solaris and Windows. It features a C Development Toolkit (CDT). The Motorola A760 is a Linux-based camera equipped mobile telephone (cell phone) developed at Motorolas laboratory in China and released in the Chinese market on February 16, 2003. ... Motorola (NYSE: MOT) (TYO: 6686) is an electronics company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. ... Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tux, a penguin, is the official Linux mascot. ... A Linux distribution or GNU/Linux distribution (or a distro) is a Unix-like operating system comprising software components such as the Linux kernel, the GNU toolchain, and assorted free and open source software. ... Consumer electronics is electronic equipment intended for use by everyday people. ... For similarly-spelled initialisms, see IDE. Binomial name Leuciscus idus |} The ide (Leuciscus idus L. 1758) or orfe is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae found across northern Europe and Asia. ... Eclipse is an open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls rich-client applications (as opposed to thin clients, this means the clients perform heavy-duty work on the host running the application). ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The Solaris Operating Environment is a computer operating system, based on the open-source UNIX SunOS developed by Sun Microsystems. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of closed source proprietary commercial operating environments for personal computers and servers. ... The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a standardized programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use on the UNIX operating...

Mobile phones using MontaVista Linux

• Motorola A760
• Motorola A768i
• Motorola A780
• Motorola E680
• NEC N900iL
• NEC N901iC
• Panasonic P901i

The Motorola A760 is a Linux-based camera equipped mobile telephone (cell phone) developed at Motorolas laboratory in China and released in the Chinese market on February 16, 2003. ... Motorola Incs E680 handset is its first Linux*-based smartphone to be sold outside the Chinese market. ...

See also

• Comparison of Linux distributions
• Mobilinux

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of distributions of the Linux operating system. ... Mobilinux is a Linux based OS targetting smartphones and announced by MontaVista Software on April 25, 2005. ...

External link

• MontaVista (http://www.mvista.com)