Linux on embedded systems

MontaVista Announces Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification Readiness for Carrier Grade eXpress Linux

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

MontaVista's certification services leverages their Linux platform capabilities, as well as provide the extensive understanding of the methodologies required to achieve complex certification programs.

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  • MontaVista's certification services leverages their Linux platform capabilities, as well as provide the extensive understanding of the methodologies required to achieve complex certification programs.
  • In addition to its market-leading Embedded Linux products and deep technical expertise, MontaVista is offering engineering services to configure secure Linux platforms, such as MontaVista CGX, based on end customers' security requirements.
  • "We see increasing requirements for standardization and certification across many of our served markets," said Iisko Lappalainen, Director of Product Management at MontaVista.
  • Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time-to-market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux.

MontaVista Announces Multiple Tier1 Customers Adopting MVShield for Commercial Support of CentOS and Rocky Linux

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Thursday, October 21, 2021

MVShield for CentOS allows customers to freeze theCentOSbranch they are using.It is best suited for customers who utilize CentOS in markets like network and wireless infrastructure, medical, and aerospace & defense.

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  • MVShield for CentOS allows customers to freeze theCentOSbranch they are using.It is best suited for customers who utilize CentOS in markets like network and wireless infrastructure, medical, and aerospace & defense.
  • In addition, MVShield customers using SLAs can get access to MontaVista's deep expertise to help troubleshoot and quickly triage hard to diagnose issues.
  • "We are delighted our long-term customers have selected MontaVista for such key platforms," said Magnus Nemell, Global Account Manager at MontaVista.
  • "The selection of MontaVista MVShield for their upcoming products sends a clear message to our customers, emphasizing MontaVista is a supplier you can trust.

MontaVista MVShield Support Now Available for Rocky Linux Baselines

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MontaVista Software, LLC , a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services, today announced the immediate availability of MVShield support services for Rocky Linux.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MontaVista Software, LLC , a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services, today announced the immediate availability of MVShield support services for Rocky Linux.
  • The Rocky Linux project was founded in late 2020, gathering immediate momentum since its inception with continued robust adoption during 2021.
  • MontaVista has since been completing the MVShield product integration to contain the Rocky Linux GA release, and is pleased to announce general readiness to accept customer support projects, with lead customer deployments underway.
  • As with other MVShield options,Rocky Linux support includes the MontaVista values of deep expert support, stable and validated security maintenance process, and the option of providing strict Service-Level Agreements to fulfill even the most demanding customer requirements.

MontaVista Launches Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) 3.1 and Steps Up Yocto Alignment

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- MontaVista Software, LLC ,, a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services, today announced the availability of MontaVista's Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) 3.1 in Q3 of 2020.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- MontaVista Software, LLC ,, a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services, today announced the availability of MontaVista's Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) 3.1 in Q3 of 2020.
  • The CGX 3.1 release will include the baseline of components from Yocto 3.1, commercialized by MontaVista's Carrier-Grade build and test infrastructure.
  • MontaVista is also offering collaborative development services for customer-specific BSP development allowing customers to use MontaVista test harnesses and expertise to produce high-quality products based on the CGX distribution.
  • Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time-to-market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux.

RunSafe Security Launches Integration with Yocto Project

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

"With its accelerating adoption for building embedded linux distributions, Yocto users needed a simple and seamless solution to reduce attack surfaces and enable continuous delivery, without chasing vulnerabilities and delaying releases," said Joe Saunders, CEO of RunSafe Security.

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  • "With its accelerating adoption for building embedded linux distributions, Yocto users needed a simple and seamless solution to reduce attack surfaces and enable continuous delivery, without chasing vulnerabilities and delaying releases," said Joe Saunders, CEO of RunSafe Security.
  • "We're excited to support Yocto users to insert security into the build toolchain while reducing costs associated with frequent security updates and releases of IoT and embedded systems," said Doug Britton, chief technical officer, RunSafe Security.
  • RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction.
  • The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products, regardless of the hardware architecture.

Raima and MontaVista announce strategic partnership

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SEATTLE, May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Raima Inc., a premium provider of embedded database technology, and MontaVista Software, LLC, a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services announce a strategic partnership offering a collaborative feature-rich and optimized platform for embedded and IoT developers.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SEATTLE, May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Raima Inc., a premium provider of embedded database technology, and MontaVista Software, LLC, a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services announce a strategic partnership offering a collaborative feature-rich and optimized platform for embedded and IoT developers.
  • As part of this partnership, Raima Database Manager (RDM) extends support to Embedded Linux platforms with MontaVista's latest Linux Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) commercial distribution.
  • Raima and MontaVista now offer this comprehensive IoT platform, combining both the embedded Raima Database Manager with the carrier grade quality of CGX.
  • "Raima Database Manager is the worldwide leading database management system for real-time operating systems, and we are excited about partnering with MontaVista," states Steinar Sande, Raima's CEO.

Raima and MontaVista Announce Strategic Partnership

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

SEATTLE, and SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Raima Inc., a premium provider of embedded database technology, and MontaVista Software, LLC, a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services announce a strategic partnership offering a collaborative feature-rich and optimized platform for embedded and IoT developers.

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  • SEATTLE, and SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Raima Inc., a premium provider of embedded database technology, and MontaVista Software, LLC, a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services announce a strategic partnership offering a collaborative feature-rich and optimized platform for embedded and IoT developers.
  • As part of this partnership, Raima Database Manager (RDM) extends support to Embedded Linux platforms with MontaVista's latest Linux Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) commercial distribution.
  • Raima and MontaVista now offer this comprehensive IoT platform, combining both the embedded Raima Database Manager with the carrier grade quality of CGX.
  • "Raima Database Manager is the worldwide leading database management system for real-time operating systems, and we are excited about partnering with MontaVista," states Steinar Sande,Raima'sCEO.

Percepio Introduces Tracealyzer 4.4 With Support for Embedded Linux

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Percepio , the leader in visual trace diagnostics for embedded systems and IoT, introduces new support for embedded Linux systems in Tracealyzer v4.4.

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  • Percepio , the leader in visual trace diagnostics for embedded systems and IoT, introduces new support for embedded Linux systems in Tracealyzer v4.4.
  • The new Tracealyzer for Linux leverages the widely supported LTTng tracing framework, and has been verified with Wind River Linux LTS 2019.
  • Tracealyzer v4.4 combines the latest generation Tracealyzer with significant improvements for embedded Linux.
  • Tracealyzer has been very appreciated among RTOS software developers and we are thrilled to now offer an even better Tracealyzer for embedded Linux developers.

MontaVista Launches a Linux® Migration Program for Windows® Embedded and Windows® CE Users

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Thursday, February 13, 2020

Further, MontaVista plan to launch technical documentation and a commercial package to assist customers who are interested in migrating from Windows platforms to CGX.

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  • Further, MontaVista plan to launch technical documentation and a commercial package to assist customers who are interested in migrating from Windows platforms to CGX.
  • "We see an emerging demand from the market to offer solutions based on Linux and open source platforms.
  • "We're very excited to launch this program and invite Windows users to take advantage of embedded Linux and it's ecosystem."
  • Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time-to-market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux.

MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade eXpress Chosen for 5G Transport Products by a Tier 1 Telecom Vendor

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Thursday, December 5, 2019

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MontaVista Software, LLC , a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services, today announced that a Tier1 Telecom vendor has chosen MontaVista's Carrier Grade Linux, CGX 2.4, to be used in a family of 5G transport products.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MontaVista Software, LLC , a leader in commercial Embedded Linux products and services, today announced that a Tier1 Telecom vendor has chosen MontaVista's Carrier Grade Linux, CGX 2.4, to be used in a family of 5G transport products.
  • Being part of the 5G transport network, the products require very high bandwidth, low latency and high security to enable the core advantages of 5G technology to the end customers.
  • "We are very excited by the adoption of our latest CGX product by one of our long term tier1 telecom customers in a core 5G product family.
  • Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time-to-market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux.