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Originally Posted by virtuald
Now if they would just get rid of vxWorks and let us use Linux on there we'd be really set...
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I run linux every day on my laptop and every other computer I own and use, but I wouldn't want to use it on a robot if I had the choice to use VxWorks or some other real realtime OS. The robot needs to be realtime to be guaranteed to respond quickly to user and sensor input, and Linux is not designed to do that. It's designed to run on servers and desktops where a bit of latency isn't an issue. There are patches that have been made to make the linux kernel more real time, but they aren't nearly as good as running an actual realtime OS.